The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity could lead to more accidents in space missions, experts say.
About five years ago, the Trump-appointed administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, revealed the name of the program that would ...
Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.
Despite the challenges, advocates for diversity encourage aspiring astronauts and space professionals to remain persistent in pursuing their goals. On paper, Edward Joseph Dwight Jr.'s qualifications ...
DEI in space
The European Space Agency has cleared a former Paralympian to train for a stint on the International Space Station. That’s a ...
NASA has retracted its pledge to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, following President Trump's directives ...
eliminating waste and cutting diversity programs, following on from Donald Trump's DEI policies, which have sparked ...
This revealed that the space station lacks the microbial diversity that benefits human immune systems. Microbes on the station were surprisingly uniform, and most were related to humans.
The study showed that the International Space Station (ISS) has a much lower diversity of microbes compared to human-built environments on Earth, and the microbes that are present are mostly ...