tehnakki:

npr:

skunkbear:

Check out our new video to see every NASA astronaut class. Some patterns emerge.

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Hopefully this inspires more ladies to apply. -Emily

Excuse you @npr. Women have been applying since the beginning of the manned space program. NASA hasn’t been interested in accepting them till recently. 

(The Mercury Thirteen. Women who wanted to go to space in the 50′s, paid their own way through testing to prove they were capable of the same rigorous standards the men were, and then were ignored and forgotten by NASA.)

Don’t put the lack of female astronauts on a (supposed) lack of female applicants. The fault lies on the shoulders of those who refused (and continue to refuse) to believe that women are just as capable of travelling to space as men.