04.06.1985 NASA upubliczniła skład
NASA grupa 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_11Dopiero po
40 latach nowa grupa astronautów NASA w swoim składzie nie ma czarnoskórego astronauty.
NASA astronaut class appears to be first without Black recruits in 40 yearsBy Elisha Sauers on October 4, 2025
But women outnumber men in the 2025 class.
From top left to bottom right, the 2025 astronaut class: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey, Rebecca Lawler, U.S. Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones, Laura Edgar, Yuri Kubo, U.S. Air Force Maj. Adam Fuhrmann, Anna Menon, Katherine Spies, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erin Overcash, and Imelda Muller Credit: Josh Valcarcel / NASAWhen NASA announced its 10 newest astronaut trainees during a recent ceremony, the women on stage outnumbered the men for the first time in the space agency's history: Six of the recruits who will train for future missions to the moon — and potentially Mars — are female.
But with that milestone apparently came another: the first astronaut class in 40 years without any Black candidates. The most recent class to not include any Black men or women was group 11 in 1985, NASA's history office confirmed for Mashable.
Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has ended federal diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives by executive order, including at the U.S. space agency, calling them "illegal and immoral discrimination programs." Within weeks, NASA had closed some offices and removed some content from its website about minorities. (...)
Whether the White House's DEI order had any effect on the astronaut selection process is unclear. It's also not known whether the agency remains committed to the goal of including a person of color in its upcoming Artemis III moon-landing crew. NASA spokespeople did not respond directly to written questions from Mashable for this story. Instead, NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens provided a statement that only addressed the 2025 astronaut class, suggesting that race and gender were not considerations. (...)
NASA astronaut Guion Bluford exercises on a treadmill during the STS-8 spaceflight in 1983. Credit: NASA(...)
https://mashable.com/article/nasa-astronaut-class-2025-black-candidates
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