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After completing more than two years of basic training, the six women and seven men were chosen from a record-breaking 18,000 applicants representing a wide variety of backgrounds and specialties, from experienced pilots to scientists, engineers and doctors.
The group includes two candidates from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), which has participated in a joint training program with the US since 1983. "They are the best of the best: they are highly qualified and very diverse, and they represent all of America," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. They include five people of color, including the first Iranian-American astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli who flew combat missions in Afghanistan and holds an engineering degree from MIT.
The group, known as the "Turtles", wore blue flight jumpsuits and took turns approaching the podium to receive their astronaut pins, as one of their classmates paid tribute to their character and shared playful and heartfelt anecdotes.
After being selected in 2017, the class completed training in spacewalking at NASA's underwater Neutral Buoyancy Lab, robotics, the systems of the International Space Station, piloting the T-38 training jet and Russian language lessons.
They are the first to graduate since NASA announced the Artemis program to return to the Moon by 2024, this time on its south pole, as the US plans to place the next man and first woman on lunar soil and set up an orbital space station.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 13 2020, @02:09PM (1 child)
Real diversity = AMD
Fake Diversity = Intel
Which is this?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday January 13 2020, @04:49PM
I'm hoping, this is real diversity, but at so close to a 50/50 split, it's hard to know. My guess is, it's some of both. Since, there are very few Astronaut positions available. You can afford to be choosy and still get great candidates from both sexes regardless of # of women in sciences vs # of men in sciences. As I assume, most/all of the NASA Astronauts are into the hard sciences.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"