NASA names Artemis III crew, Randy Bresnik to command

Ordinary Magic30

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.social22

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)21

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"}

Verbal Jones18

"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!

L Laiken17

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.

Iri Lux 🖖16

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. 😑

AnthropoceneMPG 🌊16

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.

Seán Ferrick13

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

Cheeky Alpha Monkey12

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

Erin Green 🖖10

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

meribel123.bsky.social6

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.

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.

Halfpint DJT IS MY NELLIE OLSEN!4

When we settle on the moon & women can be barefoot & pregnant on it, then we get to go.

🚫👑Is he dead yet?🚫👑3

I feel like we’re heading back to the 1970s. I’m fucking furious.

deidan.eurosky.social3

If you have four positions to fill and your program doesn't have one eligible woman your program is crap.

Bomani-Hamlet Cook3

Also, this isn’t the point, but what a lame sausage party. I’m not suggesting astronauts are untoward or unprofessional with each other in space, but Jesus, what a chore to have to forego the company of ANY women for a whole mission 😱

SeattleBlueGull3

What, you think djt managed to express his prejudices?

23SkidooEight2

Artemis IV astronauts will travel to lunar orbit, & two crew members will descend to the surface & spend approximately a week near the South Pole of the Moon conducting new science before returning to lunar orbit to join their crew for the journey back to Earth. I believe one of them will be a woman

Dr. Manhattan2

The whole program is rushed and over budget. Way over budget. It doesn’t bode well for NASA when women die. They expect a disaster with Artemis.

JH2

On a practical note the Artemis II crew are practiced at going to the moon and the Artemis II crew will be practiced at other bits. So no one is doing both. Why?

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......

The Liminalist2

wTAF?!?! Save us from the allies that are allies when it suits them.

Homer J. Fong193

“ Please respect the integrity of the process, even though I will give you no substantive information in this statement about how that process works.”

Will Weaver 📸113

I guess the tl;dr version is "I have a lot of friends who are women so shut up"

blueheronlagoon.bsky.social86

I appreciate this but also bristled at the “50%” women references. Maybe it’s time for a 100% woman crew

Cris (without an H)74

NASA: yes the crew is all men, but over 50% of our leadership and latest astronaut candidates are women Chidi Anagonye: okay but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right

Cheryl Rofer70

I was a great fan of space flight in my youth, until I realized one day that the only people enjoying it were middle-aged men, as they seemed to me. I LOVED Artemis II, for one of the first times since that realization. The announcement of this team put me back to that disillusioned feeling.

RainOrShine9969

“I have binders full of women.” People of a certain age will remember the quote.

otterly bewildered60

So it's a "I like women, some of my best friends are women as are my wife and my mum"-kind of declaration?

greensponreads59

"When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?" "When there are nine." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Also, the "test pilot experience," thing is institutional sexism, as the military has historically gatekept women from being test pilots.

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙58

"I love women. My mom is a woman." -NASA

Andy Gardiner46

“We’ve trained more qualified women candidates than ever before and just happen to have selected men, because.“

Emily J35

It would help if anyone believed a word this administration says, but no one does.

SolarAlly33

So....just a coincidence that P2025 doctrine that hates women and have pushed their puppets into firing all women in leadership roles, especially women of color is NOT responsible for this biased, sexist, stupid decision. Right?

Christopher Plessinger31

What he should have said was something akin to, 'career NASA employees, not politicians, made the selection. No politicians had a hand in the selection process.' That Hegseth exists and does what he does with the Dept of Defense welcomes the severity of scrutiny he's getting.

Sarah M.29

"Surely we can trust this Musk-backed billionaire appointee!"

Rd bacon28

This administration has gone to great lengths to quash the careers of people of color and women, particularly Hegseth in the military. In such a toxic environment, the burden of proof shifts to NASA to SHOW that racial/gender bias didn't impact the crew selection. It's their own damn fault.

snot factory26

Why name the moon missions after the goddess of the moon (and protecting women) if we’re just gonna launch a bunch of dudes at her?

Quoll20

I do think the decision would be more defensible if we also saw all-female crews. To date, we haven't even seen majority-female orbital crews. NB: the ISS has had majority women on board Now there's been a majority-female candidate class, we're going to see majority-female crews in future… right?

C.V. Danes19

If your "complex selection processes" result in the selection of an all-male crew as being the most qualified out of a deep bench of men and women, then perhaps examine those complex selection processes for gender bias instead of accepting them at face value.

Danni Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈17

Seems silly to name the mission after a Goddess but have no women on it.

Teufelaffe13

"We're not sexist, it's just that the most qualified people all happened to be dudes" has the same energy as "I have black friends, and they said they weren't offended"

Celeste Labedz12

"Respect the integrity of the process" Does it have any???

Emillie Parrish10

Someone should copy this and swap the gender. It's always obvious how sexist something is when you check how it feels after the genders are swapped. Language is powerful. And this actually asserts patriarchy in how it is written.

Æðelwułf9

If it were just this one thing, I could chalk it up to bad optics or cluelessness. But when you also look at senior military promotions….

Margaret8

that first paragraph reads like the worst visiting researcher student lunch I ever went to, and, uh, "I have women colleagues who are brilliant researchers" was the least of that guy's red flags

Stephanie King8

If they know soooo many women astronauts, it shouldn't have been too hard to find one!

Cate Eland8

Who would have guessed the guy known for placing the first sports bet in space would show poor judgment in explaining why, with an astronaut class that is majority women, there's not a single woman on the Artemis III crew? 🙃

Lisa 🇨🇦7

This opens basically like “I have gay family” or “I have black friends” 😡

Gordon Hundley7

This is "binders full of women" level stupidity.

Rik Mertens7

What makes it so disappointing to me is the Artemis II mission was a huge success in renewing America's and the World's interest in space missions. It set the bar for picking the perfect crew, and the Artemis III crew fails to reach that bar.

Element115Art7

He really went with "I know a lot of women" as his argument? 🙃

Arcturus SaDiablo6

I do not question the qualifications of those who were selected. But 100% agree that zero women were selected is a very bad look regardless of the reason. No excuse for it.

Cantard6

I mean...get that there are finite supply of astronauts for a finite number of missions, but maybe don't start with the equivalent of 'I have a woman friend'.

proud rebel scum ⚛️5

“been to space twice” - dude, you paid for a seat, you didn’t train for the job as a career. odd bodkins!

Ms. Trannÿ of Tÿranny 🏳️‍⚧️5

This statement seems like more work than having at least one woman on the crew, right?

Justin Walsh5

As long as the surface landing crew is all women, I won't criticize this

Nancy Elliot 🇨🇦5

Here is the thing - the crews are somewhat supposed to be representative - I mean, we don’t really need Canadians but they are included because partnership. And NASA makes a big deal when Canadians, other nationalities, non-white people, females etc are present, so clearly they use this inclusion /2

25 for 475

This... did not answer the question

empty seats can't melt supreme court justices5

I don't trust them because they have lied about everything all the time.

casper-cdn.bsky.social4

Says the rich white guy

doctoroctothorpe.bsky.social4

This administration has zero credibility. Heck, they've got a credibility deficit. Hegseth is over there ruining careers for any officer who isn't a white christian guy, so yeah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iLr...

nick4

Did he seriously pull a “some of my friends are women”?

🦂 The Scorpiono: 22 Medical Specialists?! This could be it! 🙃4

Foh with this ol' "SoMe Of My BeSt FrIeNdS aRe WoMeN" ass statement. 🤣🤣🤣

Elizabeth H4

This makes me feel even worse about it. 😐

Boris Kamenik 🇪🇺🇺🇦4

I'm sure he has "binders full of women" 🙄

two escaped emus named Thelma and Louise4

My headcanon is that they asked for volunteers and the only ones who wanted to work with Elon's Space Arm were dudes

Sammy4

"Respect the integrity of the process that can, by chance, select an all men crew but never assign more than one woman to any crew, even though 50% of the candidates are women"

Pasha4

My team and I work with the astronauts and fwiw we’re convinced that NASA did this because, for better or worse, A3 kinda seems like a step down from 2 and we’re all hoping A4 will have at least two women. I think it would be bad ass for an all woman crew to land on the moon next. But this is odd.

Martti Nelson, Lady Author3

No political choices at all!

Justin Buist3

The only semi-appropriate response is "Look, Apollo 9 was cool but nobody remembers the names of those astronauts. This is a repeat. We're sending up some dudes to get it out of the way and saving the cool shit for the all woman IV crew."

jadehawk "FREE ŁINK"2

i was gonna ask if they even let you have comms jobs without knowing the "some of my best friends are" rhetorical trap, but then i saw who this is from and nevermind. of course that cursed mofo would be like that

Karen Haberkorn2

I read it as, “Don’t complain! We have lots of talented, qualified women waiting in the wings where they belong!”

leviathan3k2

I'll be honest.. I think I'd care a bit more about the Artemis 4 launch that's actually scheduled to *land* on the moon over this Earth-orbit-only test mission.

ABOLISH DHS. 🇵🇸2

The first paragraph--defensive & inappropriate-- also, yes, 50+% of the population is female, bro. Appropriate percentage of women in space would be 50%. Saying last class of trainees was majority female is either non-sequitur or further fuel to the Q of why there are no women on Artemis III.

brenthepp2

But I have a lot of friends who are chicks ...

Roz 🌞 🌙 🌟2

Hmmmm. Are they the computers (all women mathematicians) in the basement of Hughes or Boeing. Eyeroll.

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.

nickyhaflinger.bsky.social2

Looks like a young Jean Luc Piccard...

nathanrmcgrew.bsky.social5

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

Beautiful4

All men. Fuck off. I am sure if you are a racist female hating white male you are to the moon happy.

paul-NewEngland3

> 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.

deebell.bsky.social2

WHY ARE THERE NO WOMEN ON THE FLIGHT MANIFEST?

Chelsea Whyte47

Ah okay then, so Artemis IV should be all women

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!!

🍉Benfunks⭕️5

surprised it’s not all white

Jennifer Lee 🪁3

They would call a woman on the crew DEI.

Alex Turnbull3

However that decision does, IMO, improve the odds of my longstanding imaginary bet on Artemis IV CDR Anne McClain paying out, so...here's hoping for redemption on the next flight?

James 🌈2

What happened to NASA? They led the way in science and diversity. Now they don't.

drmag0011

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

Rebecca Stefoff2

Yet sadly not a surprise.

Fleet2

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