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?
8:36 pm on June 24, 2021