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posted by n1 on Friday April 28 2017, @02:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the flying-high dept.

Early Monday morning, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson set a new record for the longest time in space for any US astronaut, hitting a landmark 534 cumulative days in orbit. Fellow astronaut Jeff Williams set the previous record only last year.

Dr. Whitson will continue to extend the new record for the duration of her stay as current commander on the International Space Station, ultimately to more than 650 cumulative days, setting a high bar for those looking to break her record.

This is not the first time Whitson has made NASA history, however. The astronaut and biochemist also became the first woman commander of the ISS in 2007 and the first woman to command the station twice, earlier this year. She is also the oldest US woman to have completed a spacewalk, and has done more spacewalks than any other female NASA astronaut.

It's not just girls who are inspired by accomplishments like Dr. Whitson's.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @03:09AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @03:09AM (#501019)

    Women naturally have better stamina than men.

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 28 2017, @03:19AM (4 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday April 28 2017, @03:19AM (#501020) Homepage

    Well, due to their generally smaller bodies and higher-resistance to G-forces, they are better at some tasks than men are.

    In many cultures, they are either the brain and/or dominant force of the family unit. The caveman goes and clubs dinner. The cavewoman calculates finances and plans for a better tomorrow.

    The problem is Islam. If we stop all this silly political bullshit and open our ranks to more and more female pilots allowing our Femmes Fatales to indiscriminately turn the Islamic men into mincemeat, then the Western world can be saved. We can free the burquas and hijabs and niqabs from their wearers' oppression!

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @03:23AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @03:23AM (#501021)

      We can free the burquas and hijabs and niqabs from their wearers' oppression!

      I knew it! You're a shill for the Revocs Corporation [wikia.com]!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @04:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @04:43AM (#501031)

        The Nykeee Corporation.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @09:30AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @09:30AM (#501087)

      The problem is mainly theism because many of them have rules that women should be suppressed in various ways. Considering the self interest. Women under Islam might be the perfect cog to rip out to undermine the machinery. They get screwed really bad regardless what they do by that theistic system. So they have a lot to win and almost nothing to lose by ending the grip on them.

      What they need however is aid to step out of the cycle of reinforcing controls of others. So they can turn and mincemeat the whole theocratic system later on.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @04:32PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @04:32PM (#501210)

        What they need however is aid to step out of the cycle of reinforcing controls of others. So they can turn and mincemeat the whole theocratic system later on.

        This the reason why I donate to support girls education, particularly in those countries with heavily "theocratic systems". If all goes to plan I am hoping that within the next ten to twenty years there will literally be tens of thousands of Malala Yousafzais [wikipedia.org], each one demanding that they be given equal access to education. I'm sure it will scare the theocrats shitless!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @09:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @09:15AM (#501084)

    "She"? Did you just assume their gender? Just because they were born with a vagina doesn't mean they identify as female. Some men have vaginas and some women have penises you oppressive patriarchal shitlord!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @01:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @01:37PM (#501152)

      Normal people are able to look at context clues such as the pronoun others use when referring to that person.

      But then again, normal people don't get completely bent out of shape when they misgender someone by accident.

      So no, insisting on using a name for somebody that is no longer their legal name and insisting on misgendering somebody despite having been corrected repeatedly is not normal. It's not only rude but neurotic.

      Everybody has misgendered somebody by accident at least once, and chances are that person was cisgendered.

      Once again, here is definitive proof that your trap-dar is not as accurate as you think it is, no matter how loudly you thump your chest. http://www.freep.com/story/news/2015/06/22/fishbones-woman-speaks/71243408/ [freep.com]

      Get over it.