[HN Gopher] NASA Scraps Promise to Land 'First Woman and Person ...
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       NASA Scraps Promise to Land 'First Woman and Person of Color' on
       the Moon
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2025-03-24 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (gizmodo.com)
        
       | jfengel wrote:
       | Presumably because they lack sufficient merit.
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       | But their two white, male colleagues don't have to re-prove their
       | merit. One has never even been to space, but it's the two
       | astronauts with hundreds of days in space that need to be
       | reconsidered.
        
         | Rebelgecko wrote:
         | The crew of Artemis 3 hasn't been chosen yet, and I don't think
         | they're changing up the crew for Artemis 2. My understanding is
         | that now the crew selection will happen in a race and gender
         | blind way. My money is still on Jonny Kim.
        
           | neverokay wrote:
           | The thing is they want to make the point DEI went too far. If
           | they are finally getting to the "we ourselves have gone too
           | far", then they may put in a black woman to show some type of
           | capitulation without giving up moral superiority.
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           | That's IF they are evolving, otherwise expect two white
           | males.
        
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