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

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: 2) by DutchUncle on Monday June 25 2018, @06:16PM (1 child)

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Monday June 25 2018, @06:16PM (#698242)

    Disagree, no matter what was "the factor". People often "hold back" on a relationship-risking action, thinking that there's still a chance things will go right, because they don't know (or can't accept) that the other side (management, relationship, whatever) has already made up its mind.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 25 2018, @06:19PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday June 25 2018, @06:19PM (#698245) Journal

    A lot of people have cried "racism" or even accused the Trump administration of bumping this astronaut. The burden of proof is on them.

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