The Thirty-Five New astronaut candidates. Including White, Black and Asian American.
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The Thirty-Five New astronaut candidates. Including White, Black and Asian American.
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The 2025 selection was pretty hard to beat, it included a bunch of millionaires with 0 experience in science or math. Katy Perry finally became that firework she was singing about.
I bet they accomplished more than holding flowers up to the camera.
Ahh yes. It’s great to see authentic female astronauts. The ones that actually deserved the attention
I know it’s off topic and irrelevant but that man in the middle of the second pic?? Now that’s some manspreading!
These women spent their lives to be some of the best humans in their profession. The fact that space tourism companies use the word astronaut is just offensive. It’s akin to calling yourself a pilot because you took a flight somewhere once.
Kind of crazy that NASA started selecting women to be astronauts almost half a century ago, but while there have continued to be many missions with only men on board (most recently Crew 6 for NASA) they have never flown a single mission without at least one man on board, allowing Katy Perry and the rest of NS-31 to claim the record for first American spaceflight to have exclusively women on board.
Now they look like actual astronauts!
Except bottom right. She looks like she’s coming along to do some light dusting and bake a Victoria sponge.
The list of the TFNG (“Thirty Five New Guys” – what they called themselves)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_8#Group_members
3 of them perished in the Challenger disaster. RIP.
I wonder what we could have accomplished had our society been so easily convinced to outsource government functions to private industry while paying a massive premium that benefits owners of those companies disproportionately. Or allowing the consolidation of industry until any sectors of the economy are controlled by just handful of corporation who cooperate to fix prices, enriching their majority shareholders. Or allowing our tax burden to fall on the upper middle class via an income tax rather than on capital gains and corporate taxes.
Shout out to For All Mankind for giving us an alternate history of the Mercury 13 programm
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And none of them had to fuck Jeff Bezos to get on board.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[JAXA](/r/Space/comments/1k3os99/stub/mo4edr3 “Last usage”)|Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency|
|[NS](/r/Space/comments/1k3os99/stub/mo40s2y “Last usage”)|New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle, by Blue Origin|
| |Nova Scotia, Canada|
| |Neutron Star|
|[Roscosmos](/r/Space/comments/1k3os99/stub/mo4edr3 “Last usage”)|[State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos_State_Corporation)|
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The amount of education and on-the-job experience among those six women in the first picture is mind-blowing. Judith Resnik was an accomplished engineer who died in the Challenger accident. They are true trailblazers for women in the STEM community.