can you imagine if tumblr was around when the original star wars came out and in the two year gap between movies there were heated arguments between luke/leia shippers and han/leia shippers and all kind of vague posts and fandom wank and thousands of luke/leia fics on ao3 and people devotedly making gifsets of luke/leia with florence + the machine lyrics only for it be revealed that they were SIBLINGS like can you imagine the fallout
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.
Kimchi and Justice 