NASA Wipes Graphic Novels About Ladies Astron...

NASA has scrubbed two graphic novels that includes feminine astronauts from its web site, in a transfer that’s in obvious alignment with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI stance.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) insurance policies are people who typically promote truthful remedy of individuals of all backgrounds. The Trump administration shouldn’t be a fan of DEI—on the primary day of Trump’s second time period, the White Home called DEI packages “unlawful and immoral” and declared that the federal government is “dedicated to serving each individual with equal dignity and respect.” To that finish, evidently NASA eliminated graphic novels a couple of fictional feminine astronaut named Callie Rodriguez from its web site.

As reported by Keith Cowing of NASA Watch, the graphic novels had been on-line for years. (“Apparently NASA DEI Sanitation Squad is utilizing my postings to assist them delete issues,” Cowing wrote.) The sequence titles have been “First Lady: NASA’s Promise for Humanity” and “First Lady: Increasing Our Universe.”

The area company left up releases saying editions of the graphic novels and updates to the sequence, however the primary touchdown web page—devoted to Rodriguez’s story because the (fictional) first girl to stroll on the Moon—now yields a 404 error. NASA’s Press Secretary Bethany Stevens didn’t reply to a request for remark.

In January, NASA moved to terminate diversity programs, and final month the company knowledgeable its staff that they might no longer show pronouns of their on-line profiles, from electronic mail signatures to their Microsoft Outlook accounts.

This week alone has been a turbulent one for NASA beneath the Trump administration—a number of days in the past, the company terminated $420 million in contracts, based on the the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has slashing headcount on the federal authorities since its creation by government order on Trump’s first day in workplace. It stays to be seen how drastically DOGE, beneath the management of Elon Musk, will alter operations on the nation’s area company.