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Red flags as NASA politicizes Trump’s space mission, first launch draws near

March 1, 2022 | | Print Article

As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) moves forward with the Artemis lunar missions, their focus on diversity and equity may have sent them drifting off the mark.

In 2017, President Donald Trump announced his bold initiative to rekindle American space exploration which led to a plan for a new manned lunar mission by 2024. Dubbed Artemis, the three launch mission began in 2019 with hopes of sending the “first woman and next man to the Moon within five years” with aims of developing technologies to one day land on Mars.

As the Artemis I launch date nears, concerns are rising that the mission may stray toward a political agenda following several announcements made in 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris was named chair of the National Space Council in May 2021 following an abridgment to the Artemis goal that would now aim to send a woman and a person of color to the moon.

Not long after, NASA announced “Mission Equity,” a plan to “ensure our programs are accessible to all Americans and, especially, those living in historically underserved communities across the country,” according to former astronaut, NASA administrator and former Democrat senator of Florida, Bill Nelson.

This proposal, which many have dubbed “Critical Space Theory,” harkens back to the misguided use of NASA during President Obama’s administration where $100 billion that was slated for space exploration and a future moon mission was cut and the organization would redirect efforts toward “ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries,” Judicial Watch reported.

The space program already has a history of diversity and even had the first all-female spacewalk in 2019. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, a participant in the historic walk, is currently a candidate for the lunar landing objective of Artemis III, MSN reported.

A diverse candidate unto herself, described as a Jew and Swedish citizen, Meir could be the first person to step foot on the moon since NASA astronaut Eugene Cernon on Dec. 12, 1972. Meir said, “I wanted to be an astronaut at five years old – I grew up watching the space shuttles launched,” and that being the first woman to land on the moon would be a culmination of her childhood dream.

Though Meir has more than proven her qualifications as a career astronaut, the concern remains that President Joe Biden’s goals of diversity and inclusion may actually limit highly qualified astronauts based on the fact that they are white men.

Biden has already suffered criticism for the narrow limitations that he set on selecting his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, after only considering black women for the position. These “woke” guiding principles leave many in doubt as to the future successes of programs if the objective is to fill quotas rather than do the best job possible.

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