How about Starfleet? On the Enterprise?
-PJ
Posted on 11/21/2021 10:07:06 PM PST by blueplum
The crew, known as Crew 4, will be the fourth group of astronauts on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft mission to the ISS, and Watkins hopes her voyage into space will provide inspiration for others...
...Jessica Watkins will join the crew and live aboard the ISS from next April.
The Maryland-native will spend spend six months there as a mission specialist in what will be her first mission in space.
..Jessica has experience of working in astronomy-based labs, as she spent time working with the science team for the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, while also gaining a postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
She should be embarrssed by the racist hype.
What will she do there, seems more qualified to work for JPL On their myriad ofMars landers
I am almost positive that there has already been a black female American astronaut before now.
Mae C. Jemison.
It’s ridiculous that a Black person doing something that white people have done for sixty years is considered “historic”.
A republican was president then
It doesn’t count
Is she qualified? That’s all that matters.
Waiting for the first tranny lesbian little person. We can then change it from the International to the Intersectional Space Station
Will the risk of blood clots increase in astronauts who have the Covid-19 vaccine?
It appears pilots are more at risk after being vaccinated.
First black female astronaut...
STOP WITH THIS FIRST-BLACK ‘this & that’ RACE CRAP ALREADY! It’s just another human being!
Tired of this nonsense. Just be productive, contribute and lead a good life. Who cares any more what color, ethnicity or gender you are. This is getting old and annoying. Knock this crap off!
Thank you. I was about to point that out.
Yes, but was she on the ISS, or just the Space Shuttle?
There are only two races of people: the decent and the indecent. — Victor Frankel (paraphrased)
How about Starfleet? On the Enterprise?
-PJ
You are correct. STS-47, September 1992
CC
Judging by Watkins pic and her playing rugby and coaching basketball, she’s probably the first black dyke in space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison
“She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.”
Black Astronauts!?
Here is a documentary about the first black astronauts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
Learn your history!
RACE IS IRRELEVANT TO EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR RACISTS!!!!!!
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