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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.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Monday June 25 2018, @06:17PM (7 children)
The South is where they erect statues to traitors. We should have let General Sherman do what he wanted. If we'd hung a bunch of the traitors, we'd have a lot fewer problems in the US today.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday June 25 2018, @06:40PM (6 children)
So 290,000 wasn't enough for you? 1 in 100 people were killed for siding with the south. How much blood do you require to wash away the sins of our ancestors?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:18PM
He wants it all. All our blood. He, and those with him, want us all dead.
More and more of us are waking up to that fact these days. It's he, and those with him, scream so much; they're afraid their schemes to exterminate us won't work after all.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Monday June 25 2018, @10:49PM (4 children)
If you could acknowledge the "sins of our ancestors", we wouldn't have to argue over statues of traitors and rebel battle flags. But the fact is that the people showing up at these racist rallies don't really believe the South did anything wrong.
At minimum, we should have had a series of Nuremberg-style trials for everyone above the level of captain. Some hangings might have been helpful in preventing Jim Crow and the many many more lynchings in the antebellum South. And of course, immediate full reparations for anyone who had been enslaved and a couple of generations that followed them.
As it was, we pretty much blew it. Emboldened by the general pardon and the forgiveness of the North, the racists formed the KKK and other shadowy white supremacist groups, which led eventually to Donald Trump and the mess we're in today.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday June 25 2018, @11:10PM (3 children)
What mess? Trump has been better for black employment than any president since Lincoln.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:40AM (2 children)
The trajectory of black unemployment is exactly the same under Trump as it was under Obama. Trump did nothing for black unemployment but inherit a good economy.
Unfortunately, wages have been steadily dropping since Trump got his Tax Cut for the Rich bill through congress back in January. So a lot more people are working for lower wages.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:54AM (1 child)
As a percentage of my income my take-home is up 4.5% due to the tax cuts. I am in the 50-75k/year range. Labor website conflicts itself between a zero increase and a .9% increase over the past year. Inflation is forecast at 1.9% so my net gain is still looking pretty good.
I know looking at the facts can be hard, but maybe you should do that.
More people working and more people working full time
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/06/04/the-ratio-of-part-time-employed-may-2018 [advisorperspectives.com]
Again, you are only deceiving yourself.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:23AM
First, you're one of just 4% of American workers who have seen any kind of pay bump since Trump took office, assuming you're not bullshitting, which is probably a bad assumption if you're a Trump supporter. Second, inflation since Trump took office is a 2.9%, not 1.9%, so get your fact straight.
This is from 4 days ago:
https://augustafreepress.com/frank-clemente-trump-gop-get-failing-grades-on-new-tax-law/ [augustafreepress.com]
And this is from 9 days ago:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-american-workers-wages-20180616-story.html [chicagotribune.com]
You are still welcome on my lawn.