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A Seat in the Cockpit: Recognizing and Replacing Biases with Gender Inclusive Language


April 5th, 2021, 4:15PM
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Emily A. Margolis
Christina Koch (left) poses for a portrait with Jessica Meir while preparing for their first spacewalk together. (Image courtesy of NASA)
Much has changed since the first American spaceflight in 1961: NASA has explored new places with new programs, new people, and new technologies. Yet some of the language popularly used to describe these activities has not kept pace with the evolution of America’s space program. Specifically, the adjectives “manned” and “unmanned,” early NASA mission classifications that designated the participation or absence of astronauts (at first, only men), persist in writing and discussions of spaceflight today. What’s the problem with using this outdated terminology? ....

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Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA's first female payload specialist in space, dies at 75


Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA s first female payload specialist in space, dies at 75
Space
05/02/2021
Robert Z. Pearlman
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STS-40 payload specialist Millie Hughes-Fulford poses for a photo in the tunnel connecting space shuttle Columbia s middeck to the Space Life Sciences-1 (SLS-1) Spacelab module in 1991.
The first American woman to launch into space who was not a professional astronaut but a working scientist, Millie Hughes-Fulford, has died at the age of 75.
Hughes-Fulford s death was confirmed by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) on Thursday (Feb. 4).
We are grateful for her research and advancements with her work in the life sciences. Please join us in expressing our sympathy to Millie s family and friends at this time, Caroline Schumacher, ASF president and chief executive officer, wrote in an email. ....

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'The Burning Blue' Honors Space Shuttle Challenger


The author of The Burning Blue, excerpted here, finds lessons in the tragedy
by Christina Ianzito, AARP, January 28, 2021
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It s been 35 years since that horrible day when the Challenger space shuttle exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, who trained for months to become the first teacher in space. The whole world saw their fiery end in real time, including her students in Concord, New Hampshire, and her own children.
We talked to Kevin Cook, 64, author of
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA s Challenger Disaster, to be released on June 8 (see an excerpt from the book below), about what struck him as the central tragedy of the story. ....

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