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On January 18th, the latest attempt in over 50 years by the United States to return to the moon burned up over the Pacific Ocean. A day later, Japan’s lunar lander made it to the moon.
In 2023, India landed its robot lander on the moon in a mission that only cost $75 million, while in 2020, China became the third nation, after America and the USSR, to return lunar samples.
So why is the United States still struggling to manage something that every other country seems to be able to do and that American engineers used to be able to pull off with slide rules? The Apollo computer used memory made of wire ropes woven by women in the garment industry.
Back then we picked the best and the brightest who had the “right stuff”. Now the right stuff consists of checking DEI boxes.
“NASA is embracing inclusion”, the space agency announced, “and is pursuing a set of missions that will shatter the highest of glass ceilings: landing the first woman and person of color on the Moon. While the first Moon landing in 1969 was named after the Greek god Apollo, NASA’s return missions are referred to as Artemis – Apollo’s twin sister and goddess of the Moon.”
The inclusive planned return mission to the moon will consist of a black man, a woman and a white guy for a perfectly balanced diverse expedition. Rather than picking the best people, it was announced that there would be a female astronaut because it would be inspirational, and then it was just a matter of deciding which woman fit that particular mandatory inspiration slot.
Victor Glover, the black mission pilot, who had been working on Senator John McCain’s staff when he was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate, is preparing for his mission by listening to Gil Scott-Heron’s racist rant ‘Whitey on the Moon’ “twice a week on the way to work.”
”This is their crew, this is our crew, this is humanity’s crew… each has their own story, but, together, they represent our creed: E pluribus unum – out of many, one,” NASA Administrator, and former Senate Democrat, Bill Nelson gushed.
The point of E pluribus unum is the ‘unum’. Nelson, like most modern lefties, emphasizes the ‘pluribus’ over the ‘unum’ and so the many never actually become one, and nothing gets done.
NASA may no longer be a leader in space, but, in its own words, it is a “proud leader in DEIA” and has a special program providing “gender transition” with a guide covering “agender”, or people who claim to have no gender, as well as the “gender expansive” who “expand notions of gender expression” and may “identify as a mix of genders, some identify more binarily as a man or a woman, and some identify as no gender.” Employees are urged to snitch on fellow co-workers if they “hear or observe a co-worker using an incorrect name or incorrect pronouns.”
But they may need another doctorate just to identify all the correct pronouns to use.
Once, NASA hoped to encounter space aliens out there, now it’s creating them down here.
NASA has a team that will update everything for the lunatic’s “current genders, names and pronouns” (which may or may not change on a biweekly basis) and then deploy a “workplace gender transition plan” that is only a little less complicated than the original moon landings.
Over 50 years after the last man walked on the moon, NASA is still doing very difficult things. Unfortunately they’re not the things that JFK had in mind when he proclaimed that, “we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Landing on the moon and convincing Bob that everyone is going along with his pretense that he’s now Roberta after he put on a blond wig both require a lot of work.
We could go to the moon or we can pander to Bob’s delusions. NASA has made its choice.
That’s why Japan, India and China’s space agencies, which have given precisely zero thought to what would happen if Kenji, Ashok or Guo decide they’re women, are landing on the moon.
And we’re not.
DEI and excellence are mutually opposed universal forces. NASA’s DEI plan, like most of its kind, claims that “greatest mission success” comes from “a diverse and inclusive workforce in a positive and safe work environment where individuals can be authentic”. Nonsense
Our original space program workplace mixed together Jews and ex-Nazi war criminals, and sent a bunch of straight white men to the moon: three of whom (all with Jr at the ends of their names), armed with their wits, ingeniously survived a disaster and returned home. Others did not. None of this was “safe” or “inclusive” or particularly “diverse”, but it was genuinely great.
Our mission successes in space predated an era of bureaucratic bloat, massive waste, failed projects and then pandering to every sexual fetish under the stars. (And some beyond them.)
NASA’s “progressive, visionary approach to DEIA” ends up stuck on earth with “five partners each of a different sex”, “six kinds of VD” and a seven percent increase in its budget to $27 billion only to end up losing to the lunar race to China, India and Japan.
India spent $75 million to go to the moon. NASA’s DEIA budget clocks in at $14 million.
What are we getting for our money?
“When I first came out, I did not come out as nonbinary at work. I wasn’t sure that people would accept that, so I came out as transmasculine and am only recently being completely authentic about it, like, ‘Actually, I’m nonbinary, and my pronouns are they/them,’” Mars “research scientist” Silas J. Ralston explains in a special NASA feature.
“All of the transgender people I know at NASA are white, and most of the transgender people I know at NASA are transmasculine and not transfeminine. That disparity is sort of reflective of the general world, is that the intersections of race and gender and sexuality, that the burdens of minoritization, fall the heaviest on black transfeminine people who often are not afforded the same grace and the same opportunities that white, light-skinned, or transmasculine people are.”
Who needs to land on the moon anyway or explore the universe when we can have this?
Once upon a time, NASA wanted to go to the stars, but now it wants to make sure that men can go where no man has gone before… the ladies’ room.
DEI is leukemia of society. Self righteous elites push this claptrap to naive fools having no concept of excellence and personal initiative.
My grandfather’s brother was an aerospace engineer for Lockheed back in the 1950s. We had some magnificent engineers back then.
Yes, we did, including my father. All this chaos is because of identity politics. I hate feminism so much, I can’t stand my own sex.
Agreed 100%.
It is such foolishness.
It is actually and eventually societal suicide.
Fools are in charge.
Indeed we did. The guys at Lockheed’s Skunkworks (and it was mostly guys) developed the SR-71 60-oddd years ago, using their smarts and slide rules. Today, the best they give us is the troubled F-35. Boeing meanwhile has trouble with flight control systems. (How much of that work was outsourced, I wonder.)
Most of the engineers back then were military veterans (as are, I should note, most Israeli engineers). Few are today. The loss of American primacy in technology is also seen in our engineering and science academies, increasingly populated by foreign students, Chinese and Indian most significantly.
Great points.
A very close relative worked in support of the SR-71 (and other similar facilities) in geodesy in the mid 1960s.
It is so sad those days are gone.
The use of DEI in the space program has changed its mission from finding intelligent life in the universe to destroying it on earth.
It’s finging out what sex/pronoun we think we are. We have to please the left. Truly sad.
Anyone remember when Obama declared a new req for NASA? It was charged with making middle easterners more confident. He ordered that agency to place emphasis on that over science and space research.
Between Obama and Biden America has been removed from First World status in most areas in which it was excellent and led the world.
What is worse: they ain’t done yet.
Yes, he declared that the primary mission of NASA is now going to be Muslim outreach. How could Americans ignore that treasonous statement?
Why, it’s almost like after the fall of the Soviet Union it had become a unipolar world with a single “super power” and that power’s enemies had injected a non-biological mind virus into its system to bring it down. And it worked as advertised. Or would that be too paranoid?
Sounds accurate to me.
“Whitey on the Moon” is a black man’s song pleading for the institution of Rudyard Kipling’s ” The White Man’s Burden.”
DEI is like a Mosquito buzzing around you until it moves in bites and drains out some of your blood to fertilize its eggs leave you with itchy stop and propagate its offspring
Perfect analogy!
1969. I was 10yoa. I essentially WORSHIPPED our Apollo heros. I knew their names and bios.
2024? I cannot name one,
Now in space. A first this, and first that. A female school teacher died in a shuttle mishap. (Why was she on board? What skill set did she offer?) Yes. It was tragic. But what about the other six crew members? You rarely hear about them.
I am weary of NASA, and for that matter all federal DEI, Or is it DIE? What is next? Selecting a Taliban or Houthi for a flight? Will they be allowed to bring their gun? A kukri?
That could make a good Twilight Zone skit: NASA sends first Taliban to space. He kills all crew mates, then is stuck in outer space unable to get back.
A very close relative attended high school with Dick Scobee in Auburn Washington. A small school that produced some amazing graduates. So different from schools today.
Our school systems no longer educate, they indoctrinate, and they are graduating massive numbers of uneducated individuals to go into jobs requiring intelligence and actual learning abilities. Two things that seem to be fast disappearing from the American scene.
Corporate and government and NGO managers, etc.etc.etc, must continuously promote DEI and CRT mandates in
order to show how woke and politically correct they are in order to advance their careers, get raises, avoid being fired and discriminated against.
Mental Depravity and psychopathology are now well established in all aspects of American life.
It will be very difficult to change or reverse the deep damage and fundamental harm that has been, and continues to be done to the American psyche and mentality.
America is on tract to go all one way or the other.
That was also the situation in the years leading up to the US Civil War, 1861.
The depraved psychopathic woke leftist DEI CRT identity politics that dominate America today grew out of the
Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s.
What a disgrace.
America the Depraved … no more America the Beautiful
How many white people work in Chinese restaurants, Indian restaurants? How many white people work for tik tok?
How many men work in L&D, HR, schools, nursing?
Nobody complains about that.
Exactly, 100%.
If an American gets into a fender bender in Mexico without Mexican auto insurance, even a small and insignificant accident, it’s jail time 100%.
If a foreigner gets into a fender bender in America, it’s business as usual. Very often, the illegal aliens driving around here do not have auto insurance but are completely let off the hook. It happened recently to a friend in Redmond, WA. Illegal aliens in America are given free passes as a result of too many fools voting.
I’d like to hear former NASA/Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz weigh in on this. If you’ve never read his “Kranz Dictum,” look it up. It’s one of the most inspiring speeches an American has ever made. He addressed his entire flight team after the Apollo One disaster. Though he never actually said “failure is not an option,” it became his credo for the rest of his career. We need more Americans like him.
Of course, simple logic tells us that we never landed manned spacecraft on the moon in the Apollo era.
The only manned space flights ever to leave Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are alleged to be the Apollo flights. The truth is we can send men past low earth orbit. If today’s tech can’t do it, there is no way 1960s tech would have done it.
That is simpleton logic if it even is logic at all.
Recently a craft from a foreign nation took photo of the original landing site of 1969 on the moon. China would not participate in such a lie.
Corrected version:
Of course, simple logic tells us that we never landed manned spacecraft on the moon in the Apollo era.
The only manned space flights ever to leave Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are alleged to be the Apollo flights. The truth is we can’t send men past low earth orbit. If today’s tech can’t do it, there is no way 1960s tech would have done it.
If they’re still taking suggestions for Black women and other diversities to send “ to the moon” and maybe leave them there I have a few DEI candidates in mind…..
We are not a serious nation. How many endeavors, of all sorts, have placed their core mission on the back shelf in order to promote diversity? It seems it’s more important to be able to post a picture of a “diverse” work force than to brag about success. This DEI crap would have us believe the majority of Americans have a critical eye trained on the sexual or ethnic make up of who is doing what. I for one don’t give a crap about who’s building my car, making my food or riding in my spaceship as long as they can do the job well. I would venture to say that’s the prevailing attitude and DEI is just another hoax perpetrated by the supposed victims of systemic oppression who, in fact, just want something for nothing. It’s a guilt trip driven by those who want everything handed to them while everyone else has to EARN IT.
Equal opportunities is fine when it addresses real, immutable differences, and enables genuine equality. If two people who have a First in classics apply for a job in a museum, of course the initial sift of their application forms should not discard the one whose first name is Sunday. Where it all goes pear-shaped is when the one whose name is Sunday is preferred to the other just because his name is Sunday, and not because of the appropriateness of his thesis or applicability of his internship. And if Sunday’s competitor is preferred because of a “they/them” entry in the pronoun box, that’s even worse, because, however wrong or patronising affirmative action on racial justice is, at least it is addressing a real, non-negotiable source of potential discrimination – just badly.
NASA has been a failure since Obama made his order to re-prioritize. its Mission of enhancing the confidence of middle eastern people early in his presidency. DEI is counter meritocracy and suicidal for any society the pushes such nonsense. DEI is the product of wealth, comfort, over-confidence, lack of discipline, and an indicator of the beginning of civilizational decline. With DEI the question is not IF but WHEN.
Ha! Love the humor, but the reality bites…
I propose that Elon Musk launch a completely non-woke, non-politically correct lunar lander called “Moon Unit” and its carrier spacecraft entitled “Zappa”- and the mission? To find qualified, competant, non-DEI forms of life on Earth’s companion moon.
NASA used to take us to the moon. Now NASA just drops their pants and moons us!
Ya so you would have no problem getting on a spacecraft piloted by a mentally ill transgender communist Congolese muslim midget who was hired for those characteristics instead of pure competency? DEI – Diversity means anti-white racism. Equity means communism. Inclusion means incompetence. Every time,
Didn’t the Obama/Biden team announce through the NASA chief at the time that the stated goal of the organization was to promote Arabs in space?