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highplainsdem

(59,987 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:01 PM Mar 2025

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 Trump’s directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at federal agencies.

The promise was a central plank of the space agency’s 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 Nasa’s 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

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Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2025 OP
Republicans hate the majority of Americans. nt SunSeeker Mar 2025 #1
The vast majority. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #18
In this environment I'd avoid NASA like a plague, to be honest... NotHardly Mar 2025 #23
I don't even want to get on a plane, with what Musk did to the FAA. nt SunSeeker Mar 2025 #24
It never ends... KARMA!!!!! hlthe2b Mar 2025 #2
OF COURSE THEY HAVE...... a kennedy Mar 2025 #3
And whike we're at it nowforever Mar 2025 #4
put a kitchen on the moon, that will get republican agreement nt msongs Mar 2025 #5
When are they just going to come right out and say it---- Bayard Mar 2025 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Mar 2025 #7
Can we take two white men? central scrutinizer Mar 2025 #8
Sorry, the budget was cut for the return trip ticket. usonian Mar 2025 #11
I worked for NASA for 25 years skydive forever Mar 2025 #9
I predict that Artemis II (around the Moon) will be delayed, and 3 out of the 4 crew dropped muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #10
Ah, thank you. The third one was a puzzlement until your post. niyad Mar 2025 #12
What can we say.... we blew it... RunnoDeMille Mar 2025 #13
Fuck the goddamned cowards, misoygynists, and racists. To think I once niyad Mar 2025 #14
Don't get into anything elon is in charge of! Bluethroughu Mar 2025 #15
This bipolar government is crazy. rickyhall Mar 2025 #16
Sorry, small correction required... Shipwack Mar 2025 #21
Fail without even trying. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #17
Too many screwups in the space program. I'd oasis Mar 2025 #19
Cultural Ethnic Cleansing LudwigPastorius Mar 2025 #20
Nazi SCUM orangecrush Mar 2025 #22
 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
18. The vast majority.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:41 PM
Mar 2025

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)
23. In this environment I'd avoid NASA like a plague, to be honest...
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:14 AM
Mar 2025

Like any DEI person would be let to die under a 'mishap' manufactured by Musk.

 

nowforever

(586 posts)
4. And whike we're at it
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:24 PM
Mar 2025

Let's get rid of all this damn electricity and these crazy horse buggies with motors

Bayard

(28,558 posts)
6. When are they just going to come right out and say it----
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:38 PM
Mar 2025

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.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

skydive forever

(510 posts)
9. I worked for NASA for 25 years
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:01 PM
Mar 2025

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)
10. I predict that Artemis II (around the Moon) will be delayed, and 3 out of the 4 crew dropped
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:36 PM
Mar 2025

See if you can guess which 3?



(check the flag patch if you have trouble deciding between 2 of them)

RunnoDeMille

(21 posts)
13. What can we say.... we blew it...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:15 PM
Mar 2025

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)
14. Fuck the goddamned cowards, misoygynists, and racists. To think I once
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:16 PM
Mar 2025

admired nasa (no caps anymore, they are smallllll).

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
17. Fail without even trying.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:49 PM
Mar 2025

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.

LudwigPastorius

(14,156 posts)
20. Cultural Ethnic Cleansing
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:48 PM
Mar 2025

That phrase may not be an accepted descriptor of what Trump is doing, but it should be.

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