NASA names Artemis III crew, Randy Bresnik to command

Ordinary Magic14

I'm old enough to remember when it was going to be a historic all female crew. Then dumbshite was back in power and now it's back to the 1950's.

doctoroctothorpe.bsky.social12

Hoping Jasmin Moghbeli gets assigned to the first landing mission. She was a helicopter pilot and from what I've read (just a layperson here) that kind of vertical landing skill is applicable to lunar landings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmin_...

L D Mansker, PhD (TulsaGal)12

Of COURSE it's all men - This administration's version of "only the most qualified". The only qualifier that they recognize: being able to pee standing up from their "outie" or whatever ... {no offense meant to those who pee standing up, from their "outie"}

L Laiken10

I couldn’t believe it. At this point in history it’s ridiculous not to mention that to not have women is bad science. I absolutely don’t believe there was no woman qualified. Just unacceptable.

Verbal Jones10

"First Woman On The Moon" is a historical trophy just sitting there waiting for some country to claim it. Only in the ridiculous "manosphere" era would the United States pass up such an easy accomplishment and all the national boasting that would come with it. It's RIGHT THERE! Let's do it!

Seán Ferrick9

Ah shit for real? I saw the start of the announcement, then I had to work, so I didn't see the line up :(

Iri Lux 🖖8

I had a moment of "what if Artemis IV was all women" but then realized if something went wrong they'd be blamed on behalf of all women and we'd never hear the end of it. 😑

Cheeky Alpha Monkey8

Sexism in Space…ace…ace…ace… (You all get the gist😉)

AnthropoceneMPG 🌊7

In Greek mythology, #Artemis is the Olympian #goddess of nature, wild animals, the hunt, and childbirth. That’s why it was called Artemis. #FirstWomanOnTheMoon. #StupidMisogynisIMPOTUS.

Erin Green 🖖6

They threw in a black man, so that must make it ok, right? 🙄

ZAC5

Dump and his Turd Reich. What else could possibly be the reason?

Randall Kopchak5

Terrible, and they better get it right for IV. That's the big one.

meribel123.bsky.social5

Very disappointing but hardly surprising given the interest the president has shown in this. I think he really believes men are superior to women. That’s his own special fantasy.

Mr Jackson2

I'm shocked! Surely, the men will need someone to bake them a cake. And who's going to vacume? JOKING!!!!! This knocks equality back a little......

hbrackets.bsky.social5

Oh jeez... keep it down... we dont want our president finding out that we have a friendly cooperative relationships with other countries.

Nicholas Weaver18

So this requires both Blue Origin AND SpaceX to not royally fuck up?

Deborah4

Presumably Starship is not intended to blow up at any point during this schedule?

Jack Daw4

I am notoriously risk-averse, but even so, I don't know if I would want to go on a space mission that relies on SpaceX and Blue Origin.

anotherAKGorman ❌👑3

Wtf, they're all men??? I thought this was supposed to be a mission for women astronauts???

WhatRWeDoingHere3

Seems really complicated with multiple, and perhaps unnecessary, points of failure, but I'm no rocket scientist.

Kat, The Oracle Near Delphi Falls, a maven of funk mutation2

NOPE. NOPE. I don't care. This is an insult to every single woman who is a scientist and every single girl who dreams about a scientist and every single female who ever looks up at the stars and wonders if she matters. Somewhere inside me a little girl, a Girl Scout just felt slapped.

Luigi de Guzman2

So uh is starship going to be able to do this without rapid unscheduled disassembly events

Chelsea Whyte37

Ah okay then, so Artemis IV should be all women

nathanrmcgrew.bsky.social3

Remember, kids. Artemis 3 was supposed to land on the moon. But we don't have a working HLS for some reason.

paul-NewEngland2

> Elon’s Starship HLS: can’t handle a landing area that is more than 1.5 degrees out of level or it will tip over I smell Christa McAuliffe missions. Trump will press go-fever buttons (2028?). Will NASA have the stomach to say "no."

Korrek the Waiting for the Blue Wave in November Barbarian 🇮🇱🇺🇦2

It’s not a mission to the Moon anymore. It is essentially a repeat of Apollo 9. But unlike that mission, we still have no viable lander to rendezvous with. Earth orbit operations.

Ellery 🏳️‍🌈4

Actually incredibly disappointed there's no women. Personally think going forward they should be required to send at least one woman — we deserve to see women on missions like this!!!! Seeing Christina up there was the most amazing experience, and I know it was inspiring to so many little girls!!

drmag0010

Artemis II had too much joy.

Jeff2

That’s ironic, right? I’m getting fuzzy on what words mean but that has to irony?

Riding With Robots2

Not right on the face of it of course, but speaking as a comms guy, it's also just such a self-own

Fleet2

I'm kinda shocked it's not just four white guys because that's what I'd expect from this administration

Partisan Fashionista2

I do like that @theguardian.com is referring to them as an “all-male crew.”

Róisín O’Mara2

My feelings exactly, really happy there’s someone from the ESA, but when I tuned into the announcement I was actually surprised to see no women on crew. Hopefully the next crewed mission will have more than one woman! 🚀🛰️🪐

Ben Blythe7

My immediate thought is something to the effect of "There was supposed to be a woman or two in this group but someone upstairs made shitty white guy noises about it."

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST3

Jesus, the commander is going to be 60 years old?