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.”
Stop this racist obsession. Skin color makes not difference to most of us, unless it is used to advance unqualified persons.
IIRC, Ham died in the early 1980s.
Unlike human astronauts, Ham basically said “No way in HELL am I getting in that thing again!!!”
Will they be forced to hire those who aren’t “black”?
Mars needs diversity
I think the Babylon bee has a subsidiary I wasn’t aware of. It’s called Afro Tech
“If we are ever going to put a man on the moon then we need the diversity.”
Why? We need competence and commitment.
"1957 or 1958."
Do kids even know about the old days of generations ago when moon landings were almost becoming routine?
I wonder what they think about when they first learn about that past?
Some of them are convinced that the manned Lunar missions were fake, and no amount of education in physics will overcome their spurious objections.
OMG that was hilarious
More racist black bullshit.
Go ahead and try, without any white or Asian engineers. LMFAO
Makes sense as space is black.
The Old Negro Space Program
https://youtu.be/T6xJzAYYrX8?si=KZo73noRHcXK6VRl
For the Texans who remember the oil well on fire joke.
“The first thing I’m going to do is fix those blankety brakes”
OK, I end up being really late when I get distracted for a bit while posting!
“What they lacked in technical know how, they made up for it in zeal”
That is worthy of “The Bee”
Thank you for this important documentary. I have not until now realize how deficient my schooling was until I see historic pieces like these. I blame the media and history book editors for omitting important chapters of our nations accomplishments. To suppress certain factions for no other reason that their ethnicity is abhorrent. I certainly did not know about Gordon Cooper or Buzz Aldrins association with NASSA or bloodline before this. I certainly hold no less regard for them. The governments duplicity in this should cause all blacks to question governments treatment of them, especially the double dealing Democrats. Especially the Southern blacks. How many Southern blacks got 40 acres and a mule? Thanks again.
Why aren’t there any ghetto crack whore astronauts? It’s not fair. They have a right as anyone to be in space. In fact, Mars should be set aside specifically for primitive Pygmy cannibals, to empower them to explore different ways to devour human flesh in zero gravity altitudes. Think of the possibilities. /spit
But Elon’s already African American
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