Today the (male) NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, accepted Congressional Gold Medals from the (male) Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, on behalf of
Katherine Johnson,
Dr. Christine Darden,
Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson,
In recognition of all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/hidden-figures/
@corlin are none of those women still alive?
Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020)
Christine Darden (born September 10, 1942,
Alive
Dorothy Jean Johnson
(September 20, 1910 - November 10, 2008 (aged 98)
Mary Jackson, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005)
Do you think the GOP in the House really wanted to give medals to Women? Much less women mathematicians and engineers?
@corlin fucking NASA man…. And they named the Webb telescope after a guy who led the agency during their gay/lesbian purge. “But Mooky, they didn’t find any evidence of direct involvement”. Uh huh. And the police never find any wrongdoing when they investigate themselves either.
@corlin 😭