NASA Continues Wasting Billions on Mindless Agenda

I can agree to a point.

Since the early days of the Russian and American space programs here have been PLENTY of female astronauts doing astronaut things. In 1963 Valentina Tereshkov was the first woman to go to space. 20 years after that, Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to walk in space and held SEVERAL world records as a pilot.

Hell, one of the baddest mofos in aviation was Marina Popovich (A.K.A. Madam MiG). She was the first PERSON to break the sound barrier in a MiG-21. She did not get that position because she was a woman. Madam MiG was harder than a coffin nail and had nerves of fucking steel. She knew that MiG 21 like a fat man knows cookies and insulin.

There have been Americans, too. Sally Ride was the first American woman to pass the grueling astronaut training. Again. She was no diversity hire. She was a physics professor and was a model astronaut. In fact, when the feminists and woman-haters tried to make her gender the issue, she would reply "I only see myself in one way--as an astronaut".

The difference? These women became "firsts" in the course of doing their job. Even in the publicity-hungry Soviet Union, Tereshkov and Popovich were not selected for their jobs because they were women. Same deal with Sally Ride. They were selected because they were absolute badasses. These women actually did more than be "the first woman" (which basically means a man did it first). They were actual trailblazers who were the first PEOPLE or best PEOPLE to do certain things. That's something to be incredibly proud of.

The staged and fabricated all-woman spacewalk is the opposite. First of all, a spacewalk is something women have done since the early 70's. It is nothing new or ground-breaking. Second? The staged nature tells everyone that women can't blaze trails unless there is a slow, underhand-pitch softball thrown by NASA. There is no excitement or passion in the first all-woman spacewalk. It is a transparent publicity stunt that furthers the notion that women aren't shit without a handout. Everyone knows that the all-woman spacewalk is a handjob.

Part of the problem is simply the times. Space travel is like taking a shit these days. Until we land on the moon again, make it to Mars, or do something new, sexy, and innovative, it is hard to get people excited. Space X is doing cool (unmanned) things. That stunt that Baumgartner did with Red Bull was pretty badass. But we have gotten so good at space travel that the bar must be raised to create actual heroes and heroines. To create real role models will take a bona-fide and ORGANIC act of badassery. Staging an all-woman spacewalk isn't it.