Bernard O'Shea
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Now, it was in black and white.
The ties may have been different colours.
But it was all men.
All men.
So I looked up the stats.
On the last Apollo mission, which was Apollo 17, less than 5%
of the staff, of which there were 400,000, were women.
The proportion of women working on Artemis II is between 30 and 35%.
And it's not just mere numbers.
There are more women in positions of power, in leadership roles.
Like the director of the launch day was a woman, is a woman.
And that's brilliant.
When you think about it, like women working in NASA was so remarkable in the 50s and the 60s that they made a movie about it.
Hidden Figures.
Remember that one?
It was about mathematicians Catherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.
And they suffered sexism and racism back at the time.
So it is brilliant to see that 30-35% of the people working on Artemis II are women.
That's good news.
That is good news.