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On Tuesday, August 21 chaired by Vice President pence the sixth meeting of the National Space Council recently revived a group that originally chartered in 1958, broke up in 1993, and then under the current government to help chart the direction of American business revived in the room . There were four guest speakers after the meeting highlighted. There has been talk of thermal propulsion for space of nuclear and nuclear energy; They spoke in situ resource utilization on the Moon and Mars; and they spoke of planetary exploration, the dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan in particular. All were interesting topics and suitable for a meeting, whose theme was, well, the future of space exploration. And then there was Saralyn Mark, M. D. and a specialist in general medicine who talked about gender bias. His main point: NASA needs – no kidding – recognize that there are differences between the sexes, because the sending of “gender” different crews will be hard for Mars. At least I think that their place was. It was honestly difficult to hear because you just! We have since 1983 of various kinds room for staff to send us women have a man in the room to do any work they had to do. All. Walking space? Check. Shuttle commander? Check. Space Station Commander? Check. Record for long-term flights? Check. So what it is the new thing of its kind NASA prejudices should start – Start? – attention to? Oh, I could tell you stories tell of a male engineers time original ideas of clothes and hygiene products for women astronauts. I work as an engineer at NASA then in human factors and group of cockpit design. And I was to sustain our first women in the room, but we speak the late ’70s, early’ 80s. When I flew in space in the ’90s, things had changed; It had been developed, created, made progress and accommodated for. For a crew member was only one crew member. The same is true today. They get what they need physically, personally and emotionally to support them in space. No big deal. So why make the continued insistence on it a big deal? And because the NASA education does not fit hold history-make-a-space suit fits-than-a-woman? The truth behind the cancellation of the “spacewalk all-female” was last April that it was a woman named! After their first brands Spacewalk, Anne McClain acknowledged that the task to the next require a longer arm reach, as he had done. Sure, they had choreographed the spacewalk redesigned took the time and effort for re-planning the mission and upgrade to late for them. “But why?” She said. Let crew member Nick Hague to do it – you train and has a longer range. Do you need another tool to do the job? Go to the toolbox and get another tool. It was never a walk in space all-female crew in the first place the idea. They are all trained professionals, hardworking crew, no-nonsense. This is teamwork at its best, is not a defeat for the female sex. There’s nothing to see here. Dr. Markus large slope is that diversity needs attention, especially in situations in which people understand their differences and get along like a long space flight. Well, that is about six men and women on the space shuttle or the International Space Station, nationalities, ethnic groups and religions, and – in their home countries – competitive political ideologies? This is not diverse enough for you? NASA has quietly and efficiently to accomplish this without fanfare for the better part of the last 36 years. According to Dr. Mark statement, once the NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine still as inspired mentioned his 11-year-old daughter to see women in leadership positions would take place in space research. Well, Mr. Bridenstine, your agency has women in leadership positions had on and off the planet much longer is the current position is maintained. And there were women astronauts live, work and decades longer lists ship your daughter was alive. Why you not inspired by this? I support the goal of landing American astronauts on the Moon and Mars. I will be proud that the flag to swing. Because this is the only flag we should be shaking.
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