The campaign of American president Donald Trump to eliminate the efforts of diversity and the language of government organizations has officially reached the moon, NASA erases the references to its promise to win the first woman and the first person in color on the lunar surface of several of its web pages, citing Trump.
The space agency has promised its two objectives to be achieved five years ago, while putting the first non -American astronaut on the moon.
But the references to this were recently stripped of the NASA website.
As of March 14, recently, the main page of the Artemis program said: “NASA will land the first woman, the first person in color and the first astronaut of an international partner on the moon using innovative technologies to explore more lunar surface than ever”, according to a snapshot taken by the Wayback machinean internet archive.
By March 16, This sentence had disappeared.
The space agency has also deleted a page, also kept On the Wayback machineannouncing a 2023 graphic novel called First woman, Inspired by the missions of Artemis, which tell a fictitious story about the first woman on the moon.
“”First woman embodies the rich story of countless women who broke the barriers and continue to lead NASA to the stars, “said Bill Nelson, then the NASA administrator, when he launched his second issue.
“Diversity is at the heart of NASA’s missions.”
Elsewhere on the NASA website, the language is still there – a 2023 article About the Artemis III mission indicates that it “will land the first woman and the first person in color” on the lunar surface.
Asked about these moves, the space agency confirmed that they were due to Trump, who issued decrees against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in January.
“In accordance with an executive decree signed by President Trump, NASA updates its language to better reflect the basic mission of the Artemis campaign: the return of astronauts to the lunar surface. NASA remains determined to align itself on the advice of the White House and to ensure the success of the mission,” a spokesperson said in a statement to CBC News.
He added “language change does not indicate a change in crew assignments”.
Website revisions are involved in the midst of a wave of companies and government organizations eliminating Dei programs and censoring language that seems to celebrate diversity. Trump referred to such programs, which historically aimed to rectify inequalities in hiring, as “discrimination”.
Trump’s anti-DEC campaign, as well as its orders for federal organizations to eliminate references to transgender persons and various people from their databases, has led to the mass purge of many databases and online web pages, including the deletion of the deletion of the deletion of the deletion of the deletion of deletion Scientific data sets On subjects from the health of young people to HIV.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon also deleted Tens of thousands of pages Emphasizing the contributions of blacks, Hispanic and islanders of the Pacific to the army and pages, including words such as “gay” and “woman”. It was later forced to restore Many of them after significant reactions from the legislators and the public.
NASA, which is an American government agency, has been responsible for closing the offices associated with the DEI and accessibility at the end of January, according to Space.com.
The Artemis program bears the name of the twin sister of Apollo, the Greek god who provided the name for the first lunar missions.
In total, 24 people were on the moon, all white and American men, 12 of whom walked on the surface. No one has set foot on the lunar surface since 1972, when the NASA astronaut, Eugene Cernan, finished the last Apollo mission.
NASA had initially planned to land on the Moon with Artemis III by 2024, but this mission has been delayed and is now planned as soon as possible in 2026.
The Artemis II crew, which should orbit the moon next year without landing, is made up of astronauts from NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
