Russia wants to fight gender inequality
Oct 30, 2015 18:45:56 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Oct 30, 2015 18:45:56 GMT -6
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This just seems to me to be lip service to compete with the west. Russia also has a long history of first but few seconds or thirds.
They don't plan on doing this until 2029 so we will wait and see what happens, but it will be interesting to see if another country can put people on the moon.
"Russia has a long history of space exploration milestones. In 1927, the world’s first exhibition of technology for interplanetary travel opens in Moscow; in 1957, Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite is launched; in 1960, two dogs, Belka and Strelka, landed onboard the prototype of the Vostok spacecraft (Korabl Sputnik-5), becoming first animals returning from orbit; one year later, Yuri Gagarin completes world’s first manned space flight onboard Vostok spacecraft; and in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Tereshkova’s story is one of the most interesting in space flight history, sprinkled with internal feuds and glorious ambitious."
This just seems to me to be lip service to compete with the west. Russia also has a long history of first but few seconds or thirds.
"The male-dominant Soviet society, however, was only interesting in setting milestones (If they were the first to bake a pie in space they would have been happy with that too; like the United States, don’t get me wrong). Tereshkova was sent in space not because she made a good cosmonaut. She was sent there because she was a woman. Once the job was done, only four other female cosmonauts were sent in space. In the same five decades, NASA sent 49 women. Acknowledging women may have been underrepresented in the Russian space program, the country’s space agency announced today that six women were locked inside Moscow’s Institute of Biomedical Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The hand-picked crew includes women with backgrounds in medicine or biophysics. Inside, the women will simulate the conditions of a flight to the Moon and back, with the women carrying out 10 experiments covering psychology and human biology. The whole mission will take eight days.
“There’s never been an all-female crew on the ISS. We consider the future of space belongs equally to men and women and unfortunately we need to catch up a bit after a period when unfortunately there haven’t been too many women in space,” said Sergei Ponomaryov, the experiment’s supervisor."
The hand-picked crew includes women with backgrounds in medicine or biophysics. Inside, the women will simulate the conditions of a flight to the Moon and back, with the women carrying out 10 experiments covering psychology and human biology. The whole mission will take eight days.
“There’s never been an all-female crew on the ISS. We consider the future of space belongs equally to men and women and unfortunately we need to catch up a bit after a period when unfortunately there haven’t been too many women in space,” said Sergei Ponomaryov, the experiment’s supervisor."
They don't plan on doing this until 2029 so we will wait and see what happens, but it will be interesting to see if another country can put people on the moon.
