Sexual discrimination in space
Published: 25 July, 2009, 09:15
Edited: 14 September, 2009, 02:01
Twenty-five years ago Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to travel into orbit, the first also Russian, but she was the first woman to walk in space.
When will another female Russian cosmonaut go into space? There have been only 3 to do so, so far (in sad contrast to the Amercians!).
I am wondering whether any Russian women are training to be cosmonauts. Also, I am unaware of how the Russian space agency decides which people are next to fly into space. I shall spend a day or two looking into the matter.
Now that we have man and woman in space why not take it furtheh send a husband and wife in space start a family as an experment and find out as time gose how space has an efect on the children from fetious to death we all those of us that believe in life on other planets are wornding how human life will react to life in space from fetious to death why not give it a try and let the world know how time with conception to death in space turns out i know i am one that is interested in how the children of the future space traval will turn out to be. Will they be like us or will they be smarter or not as smart as us
@William - I do believe you are writing this from a mental institution. Plenty is already known about the exposure of the human body on space and it isn't pretty reading. You want to expose children to that? Do take your pills please?
@Paula - Why SHOULD there be an all female crew? That is a notion as sexist as enforcing all male crews - which by the way never was officially enforced - there just wasn't any female astronauts around at one point. Anyhow, lets keep the subject of gender wars out of space and keep the onus on science, eh?
Why can't there be an all female crew on the International Space Station ?