{"id":21418,"date":"2025-02-03T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21418"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:36:05","slug":"nasa-astronaut-recruitment-faces-trumps-moves-against-d-e-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21418","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump\u2019s Moves Against D.E.I."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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Since 1978, every new group of NASA astronauts has included women and usually reflected a multiplicity of races and ethnicities.<\/p>\n

That is not simply by chance. NASA\u2019s process for selecting its astronauts is not entirely gender- and race-blind. With so many outstanding applicants, choosing a diversified, highly qualified group of candidates has been achievable, said Duane Ross, who worked as manager of NASA\u2019s astronaut selection office from 1976 until he retired in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou didn\u2019t lose sight of wanting your astronaut corps to be reflective of society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Over most of its history, NASA has risen above partisan bickering, with broad support in Congress from Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. But the makeup of its most visible employees \u2014 its astronauts \u2014 could now collide with President Trump\u2019s crusade against programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion \u2014 or D.E.I.<\/p>\n

For NASA to consider race and gender at all in the choosing of astronauts appears to run counter to an executive order that Mr. Trump signed on Jan. 22. That order declares that hiring for federal jobs will \u201cnot under any circumstances consider D.E.I.-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On the same day, echoing language in a template used by agency heads across the federal government, Janet Petro, the current acting administrator, told NASA employees that D.E.I. programs \u201cdivided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s astronauts have served as ambassadors of bravery and technological derring-do for the space agency. But the original astronauts more than half a century ago were all white men, and mostly military test pilots.<\/p>\n

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The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration.Since 1978, every new group of NASA astronauts has included women and usually reflected a multiplicity of races and ethnicities.That is not simply by chance. NASA\u2019s process for selecting its astronauts is not entirely gender- and race-blind. With so many outstanding applicants, choosing a diversified, highly qualified group of candidates has been achievable, said Duane Ross, who worked as manager of NASA\u2019s astronaut selection office from 1976 until he retired in 2014.\u201cYou didn\u2019t lose sight of wanting your astronaut corps to be reflective of society,\u201d he said.Over most of its history, NASA has risen above partisan bickering, with broad support in Congress from Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. But the makeup of its most visible employees \u2014 its astronauts \u2014 could now collide with President Trump\u2019s crusade against programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion \u2014 or D.E.I.For NASA to consider race and gender at all in the choosing of astronauts appears to run counter to an executive order that Mr. Trump signed on Jan. 22. That order declares that hiring for federal jobs will \u201cnot under any circumstances consider D.E.I.-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.\u201dOn the same day, echoing language in a template used by agency heads across the federal government, Janet Petro, the current acting administrator, told NASA employees that D.E.I. programs \u201cdivided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.\u201dNASA\u2019s astronauts have served as ambassadors of bravery and technological derring-do for the space agency. But the original astronauts more than half a century ago were all white men, and mostly military test pilots.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21420,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21421,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21418\/revisions\/21421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}