Um, I see nothing but white privilege there in the control room. This is just wrong. It’s so wrong...
The first image is.......
A very large candy bar....
What the.....
It’s so dark in that room.
Um, I see nothing but white privilege there in the control room. This is just wrong. It’s so wrong...
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Biden will fix that problem - there are plenty of qualified people in the inner cities and more streaming over the border.
Actually, in the close ups of the folks at the control boards, certainly some of Asian descent, and the announcer lady, who was pretty cool and accurate, is clearly of Indian background, from the forehead dot, and another link shows her name is Mohan Swati.
I was impressed that they all, of whatever background, are on Team USA -- and the masks kind of make it harder to tell, or easier to ignore, people's ethnicity, in favor of their competence and doing a job in a pretty great endeavor, IMHO.
Actually, in the close ups of the folks at the control boards, certainly some of Asian descent, and the announcer lady, who was pretty cool and accurate, is clearly of Indian background, from the forehead dot, and another link shows her name is Mohan Swati.
I was impressed that they all, of whatever background, are on Team USA -- and the masks kind of make it harder to tell, or easier to ignore, people's ethnicity, in favor of their competence and doing a job in a pretty great endeavor, IMHO.
AND PS -- I had her name backwards -- It is Swati Mohan, and Ms. Mohan isn't just an announcer: PER NASA "Dr Swati Mohan is an Indian-American scientist who is the Mars 2020 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GN&C) Operations Lead. She has led the attitude control system of Mars 2020 during operations. Apart from this, she was the lead systems engineer throughout the development. Moreover, she is the key communicator between the GN&C subsystem and the rest of the project’s team.
More importantly, Dr Swati Mohan looks after the team, scheduled the mission control staffing for GN&C, and is in charge of various the policies and procedures the GN&C uses in the mission control room.
Dr Mohan emigrated from India to the United States when she was just 1 year old. She was raised in Northern Virginia-Washington DC metro area. She later completed her B.S from Cornell University in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and received her M.S. and Ph.D from MIT in Aeronautics/Astronautics."