At a time when the music business -- and the wider culture -- grapples with gender inequity, scientists in New York, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, have taken the issue to a cosmic level.
Astronaut Edwin E."Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. saluting the US flag on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 lunar mission on July 20, 1969.At a time when the music business -- and the wider culture -- grapples with gender inequity, scientists in New York, celebrating“The future of space exploration is probably going to be female,” says Ruth Angus, assistant curator and professor in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.
A colleague affirmed her view. “I’m with you!” declared fellow astronomer, Jackie Faherty, a senior scientist and senior education manager at the museum.event taking place Saturday , exactly 50 years after Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. Twelve astronauts in all have done so -- all of them men.
Angus reflected: “It’s actually kind of symbolic that Neil Armstrong chose to use the words ‘man’ and ‘mankind,’ even though at the time they were meant to be inclusive terms, today lots of people interpret those terms as being exclusive. Just to make it 100 percent clear, space exploration is for everyone. It would be really nice if we sent a woman of color to the moon next.”
which includes three moon rocks and a newly acquired sample of a lunar meteorite which fell in northwest Africa in 2016., scientists presented an awe-inspiring, data-driven recreation of lunar images within the iconic dome of the Hayden Planetarium “seeing exactly what the astronauts themselves saw,” says museum president Ellen Futter. “Prepare to be dazzled.”
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