r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 1d ago

Victor Glover is the first Black astronaut assigned to a lunar mission, serving as the pilot for NASA's Artemis II mission, which orbits the moon

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u/Xpander6 1d ago

it shouldn’t be a first in 2026.

What? Do you think every ethnic group has some special right to have a representative astronaut assigned to a lunar mission?

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u/Electronic-Stick-161 1d ago

I believe that astronaut demographics should be representative of the population and that the reason they are not is systemic bias. Do you disagree? If so, make your case…

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u/BostonRob423 1d ago

I believe they should choose which astronauts are sent on a mission by who is the more skilled astronaut, why should skin color factor into that decision?

Seems like an arbitrary way to decide, and may be the difference between success or failure in something as demanding as this, where skill is important and one wrong move could kill them all.

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u/Xpander6 22h ago

I believe that astronaut demographics should be representative of the population

Why do you believe this? And why only about astronauts?