Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon
Source: Guardian
Nasa has dropped its longstanding public commitment to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, in response to Donald Trumps directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at federal agencies.
The promise was a central plank of the space agencys Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027 for the first time since the final Apollo mission in December 1972.
The Artemis landing page of Nasas website previously included the words: Nasa will land the first woman, first person of color, and first international partner astronaut on the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.
The version of the page live on the website on Friday, however, appears with the phrase removed.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon
SunSeeker
(57,528 posts)AmericaUnderSiege
(777 posts)Just start naming groups, and by the time you're done naming everyone Republicans hate, it's like 80% of the American people even with overlap.
There's just no redeeming Nazis. They're the flushing toilet laughing back at you.
NotHardly
(2,619 posts)Like any DEI person would be let to die under a 'mishap' manufactured by Musk.
SunSeeker
(57,528 posts)hlthe2b
(112,803 posts)a kennedy
(35,295 posts)Fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk,
nowforever
(586 posts)Let's get rid of all this damn electricity and these crazy horse buggies with motors
msongs
(73,077 posts)Bayard
(28,558 posts)We hate black people. We hate brown people. We hate Indigenous people. We hate women. We even hate animals!
This nation cannot endure the extreme prejudice of these people much longer, and remain a democracy. All hatred, and no hope.
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central scrutinizer
(12,648 posts)Namely Drumpf and Muskrat, and leave them there?
usonian
(23,524 posts)🌘
skydive forever
(510 posts)And I'll tell you, there are a lot of people at the Space Center that would agree with this. I'm actually looking forward to this. Many of the people that work out there, on the Artemis program, are going to be so surprised when Muskrat cancels that program to feather his own nest. Gotta love schadenfreude.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,557 posts)See if you can guess which 3?

(check the flag patch if you have trouble deciding between 2 of them)
niyad
(129,527 posts)RunnoDeMille
(21 posts)Obama did the responsible thing and reset the moon return on a sustainable course as a development program. Is it the usual perverse course of America's politics that Democrats separate campaigning from governance? How I do wish that DEMS had campaigned in 2007-2008 on a return to the moon and lion tamed our aerospace industry to focus on that goal to occur by or before 2017! Instead Trump/ Musk/Vance get to kill NASA 60s- 90s and replace it with Bond Villain Space X and collect yet another easy win!
niyad
(129,527 posts)admired nasa (no caps anymore, they are smallllll).
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)rickyhall
(5,506 posts)Shipwack
(2,995 posts)This bipolar government country is crazy.
AmericaUnderSiege
(777 posts)Sure are making us "great" again real fast, you treasonous Nazi pigs. Maybe we can still be the first to land a pig on the Moon if we send your mothers.
oasis
(53,347 posts)be happy to be left off of the list.
LudwigPastorius
(14,156 posts)That phrase may not be an accepted descriptor of what Trump is doing, but it should be.