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After Being Pulled From A Spaceflight In January, Jeanette Epps Speaks Up

posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 25 2018, @05:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-space-for-you dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps was supposed to be in space right now, as the first African-American crew member living on the International Space Station. But instead she's on the ground doing all of the things astronauts do when they're not in space—training, monitoring programs, working as a capcom in Mission Control, and more.

Since being pulled from her flight in January, a mission that launched about two weeks ago for a six-month tour on the space station, Epps has remained quiet in public. NASA did not specify the reasons for her removal from Expedition 56 to the space station, saying only that, "These decisions are personnel matters for which NASA doesn’t provide information."

However, Epps did finally speak publicly this week, appearing at the Tech Open Air technology festival in Berlin on June 21, where she was interviewed by journalist Megan Gannon. The website CollectSPACE provided a transcript of the discussion.

Asked why she was taken off the Expedition 56 flight, Epps said she could not go into great detail. “I can't speculate in this forum why that was done, but it was a decision of my management and it is something that we're going to try to work through,” she said. However, Epps noted that she passed all of her NASA training, her Russian training, as well as exams for operating European and Japanese modules on the space station.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 25 2018, @07:24AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @07:24AM (#698004) Journal

    I've looked at that mag a few times. Every article is meaningless drama. TFA could have been taken straight from People. There is simply no story.

    Epps sounds like she has her head on straight. She's been soldiering along for years, she thought she was going to get her big chance, it was yanked from her - so she'll just keep her mouth shut, and soldier on. She would like to be ranked among the rock stars, but she's willing to continue the same old grind, waiting for her chance.

    Salutes, Jeanette!

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 25 2018, @07:29AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @07:29AM (#698006) Journal

    She would like to be ranked among the rock stars

    Wanna bet she'd be happier between star rocks?

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 25 2018, @07:35AM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @07:35AM (#698011) Journal

      DAS SEXISSS!!!

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 25 2018, @07:43AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @07:43AM (#698014) Journal

        What's so sexist in meteors and asteroids?

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