Posted on 04/16/2024 2:04:45 PM PDT by NorthMountain
Founder Mateus Chipa wants the Black community to be more involved in space exploration.
According to a Scripps News report of the 360 astronauts enlisted with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), just 18 had been Black astronauts as of Feb 5, 2024.
For Chipa, he believed that to increase representation and empowerment it would be necessary for an influential Black entrepreneur to launch a company to break down barriers. According to his website, he waited eight years for Black leaders to step forward. In frustration after that time had passed, he decided to take matters into his own hands and established Theby Space Services (TSS), a Black-owned private rocket company.
“TSS came in a place of a lot of frustration, a lot of accountability and responsibility…For the last 10 years, I’ve been frustrated because I haven’t seen any Black nation or individual talking about going in a space,” Chipa said in a video shared on YouTube. “I’ve been asking myself why? Why ain’t nobody thinking about this?”
He continued, “Every nation, every race are rushing to go into space. Almost now, every day they always China or Japan, U.S., Russia, India. There’s always news about the space. There’s always news about the private owned rocket company, but of those I never heard that one of those private companies are owned by a Black man or come from a black community or nation.”
Per the company website, TSS exists to fulfill three core missions. This includes first offering “universal space transportation for all of humanity.” Secondly, Chipa wants to extend its services to nations in Africa with satellite deployment, cargo transport, and manned missions to the moon and other areas of space.
“Our goal is to assist African countries in recognizing the significance of space exploration. By providing a cost-effective pathway to space, we aim to foster a deeper understanding and engagement with space endeavors across the continent,” the company website stated.
Furthermore, the third overarching goal remains to send a crew with all Black astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars.
A GoFundMe has been created in hopes of raising funding to support Chipa’s mission. The earnings will also contribute to the creation of two rockets, Big Hussle 33 and Nipsey Sky, named in honor of the late Nipsey Hussle. Both rockets are designed to handle the transportation of cargo and people into space.
“TSS is more than a space exploration company; it’s a call to action for the Black community and a statement to the world that we are ready to take our rightful place among the stars,” Chipa said, per his company website. “It’s a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and empowerment, ensuring that future space missions reflect the true diversity of humanity.”
But I won't.
I also won't be sending any money to their GoFundMe.
this wont end well
Black space exploration is a trope of woke science fiction.
Science fiction requires “suspension of disbelief” but that is a bridge too far.
It is turning into unintentional comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
The Old Negro Space Program
“It was a different time, you understand?”
Apparently it’s pretty cold in space.
Wonder if Ham is still alive lol
Ewetewb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvAvCic-Txk
I thought “surely, this must be the Babylon Bee!”
But it’s not. It looks like they’re “serious”.
Does this mean they won’t be hiring any Whites? If so, how would that change anything? Most other companies have stopped hiring Whites.
Hiring engineers based on their skin color rather than their competence.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Bee or Not The Bee
A classic!
Great old satire. That was hilarious. Thanks for posting it again.
Every time I see a picture of the classic 50s Cadillac Eldorado I think of the modified one that landed on the Moon before NASA.🌑
If we are ever going to put a man on the moon then we need the diversity.
We are a quarter of the way through the 21st century think of the accomplishment of a human finally setting foot on the moon, we can do it!!!
The dreams of our grandfathers and grandmothers and in some cases great-grandparents, of seeing a human on the moon, think of it and now we have this new black company to help us.
Well, I hope these Black rocket scientists get cracking on their space program.
There is no shortage of woke politicians, race hustlers and poverty pimps I’d love to see shot into space for nice, long and preferably one way trip to Mars.
Yet another GoFundMe scam. Who falls for these things?
OH BOY!!!
And here we go.....
Just another way to scam money from the man.
They could call their capsule the TITAN 1C
Diversity engineering worked so well the last time.
SpaceX is also launching more rockets than the rest of the world combined.
Successfully.
As of this writing, SpaceX has launched and recovered 40 Falcon-9 missions in 2024.
Hmmmm ...
Watch a Rocket Lab launch some time. They haven't stopped hiring Whites either. Four successful launches (and recoveries?) this year.
FWIW
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