Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

Nasa has dropped its longstanding public commitment to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, in response to Donald Trump’s directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at federal agencies.

The promise was a central plank of the space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027 for the first time since the final Apollo mission in December 1972.

The Artemis landing page of Nasa’s website previously included the words: “Nasa will land the first woman, first person of color, and first international partner astronaut on the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.”

The version of the page live on the website on Friday, however, appears with the phrase removed.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon

[SunSeeker]

1. Republicans hate the majority of Americans. nt

[AmericaUnderSiege]

18. The vast majority.

Just start naming groups, and by the time you're done naming everyone Republicans hate, it's like 80% of the American people even with overlap.

There's just no redeeming Nazis. They're the flushing toilet laughing back at you.

[NotHardly]

23. In this environment I'd avoid NASA like a plague, to be honest...

Like any DEI person would be let to die under a 'mishap' manufactured by Musk.

[SunSeeker]

24. I don't even want to get on a plane, with what Musk did to the FAA. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. It never ends... KARMA!!!!!

[a kennedy]

3. OF COURSE THEY HAVE......

Fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk, fawk,

[nowforever]

4. And whike we're at it

Let's get rid of all this damn electricity and these crazy horse buggies with motors

[msongs]

5. put a kitchen on the moon, that will get republican agreement nt

[Bayard]

6. When are they just going to come right out and say it----

We hate black people. We hate brown people. We hate Indigenous people. We hate women. We even hate animals!

This nation cannot endure the extreme prejudice of these people much longer, and remain a democracy. All hatred, and no hope.

[central scrutinizer]

8. Can we take two white men?

Namely Drumpf and Muskrat, and leave them there?

[usonian]

11. Sorry, the budget was cut for the return trip ticket.

🌘

[skydive forever]

9. I worked for NASA for 25 years

And I'll tell you, there are a lot of people at the Space Center that would agree with this. I'm actually looking forward to this. Many of the people that work out there, on the Artemis program, are going to be so surprised when Muskrat cancels that program to feather his own nest. Gotta love schadenfreude.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. I predict that Artemis II (around the Moon) will be delayed, and 3 out of the 4 crew dropped

See if you can guess which 3?



(check the flag patch if you have trouble deciding between 2 of them)

[niyad]

12. Ah, thank you. The third one was a puzzlement until your post.

[RunnoDeMille]

13. What can we say.... we blew it...

Obama did the responsible thing and reset the moon return on a sustainable course as a development program. Is it the usual perverse course of America's politics that Democrats separate campaigning from governance? How I do wish that DEMS had campaigned in 2007-2008 on a return to the moon and lion tamed our aerospace industry to focus on that goal to occur by or before 2017! Instead Trump/ Musk/Vance get to kill NASA 60s- 90s and replace it with Bond Villain Space X and collect yet another easy win!

[niyad]

14. Fuck the goddamned cowards, misoygynists, and racists. To think I once

admired nasa (no caps anymore, they are smallllll).

[Bluethroughu]

15. Don't get into anything elon is in charge of!

[rickyhall]

16. This bipolar government is crazy.

[Shipwack]

21. Sorry, small correction required...

This bipolar government country is crazy.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

17. Fail without even trying.

Sure are making us "great" again real fast, you treasonous Nazi pigs. Maybe we can still be the first to land a pig on the Moon if we send your mothers.

[oasis]

19. Too many screwups in the space program. I'd

be happy to be left off of the list.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Cultural Ethnic Cleansing

That phrase may not be an accepted descriptor of what Trump is doing, but it should be.

[orangecrush]

22. Nazi SCUM