Astronaut Diversity

The European Space Agency (ESA) isn’t content with more women in space. “Globally, 65 of the more than 560 people who have explored space were women, most of them Americans.” A new recruitment drive aimed at more astronaut diversity has resulted in 24% of the applicants being women. The “ESA specifically sought out people with physical disabilities, for a first-of-its-kind effort to determine what adaptations would be necessary to space stations to accommodate them.” What’s next, the first transsexual in space?

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8:36 pm on June 24, 2021