It still has to happen that the first woman on the moon will probably never come. Not in this century. And they will never even get the first person of color and the first international astronaut if Trump continues in this way.
If until March 21, in fact, on the NASA website the page dedicated to the Artemis program (which dates back to 2019) to return to the Moon in 2027 reported the ambitious and shareable goal of making us arrive “The first woman, the first person of color and the first international astronaut using innovative technologies to explore the lunar surface as never before”, Now it’s no longer like that.
In short, if the words have a weight, it is better to eliminate them. And that’s how, today, on that same page, the text has been changed: they are disappeared The references to any ambition that could marry the policies of the, to promote diversity and inclusion.
And not only that: the space agency also deleted a page that advertised a graphic novel from 2023 entitled First Woman, Inspired by Artemis missions, which told an imaginary story about the first woman on the moon.
The revisions of the website arrives in the middle of a wave of companies and government organizations that eliminate the programs of and censor the inclusion language. Trump referred to these programs, which historically aim to correct inequalities in hiring, such as “discrimination“.
And in fact a spokesman for NASA, confirmed that the reason for the change is precisely this:
In line with the executive order of the president, we are updating our language Regarding the plans to send crews on the lunar surface as part of the NASA Artemis campaign. We can’t wait to learn more about the plans of the Trump administration for our agency and to expand the exploration of the moon and Mars for the benefit of all.
The plan to bring the first woman and the first person of color to the moon to the moon dates back to 2019 and that is At the first Trump presidency And his administration had selected the astronaut candidates who would participate in the program: 18 people where diversity and inclusion were taken into consideration.
Among those 18 astronauts there were also Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen. Three US (of which A woman and an African American) and a Canadian. That is, the crew that will go aboard the Orion capsule for the Artemis 2 mission: they will not reach the lunar soil but they will circulate the satellite to test all the technologies. The launch is scheduled for April 2026.
At least theirs.
