Bernard O'Shea
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So there are no lunar missions for 50 years and then it's a bit like Dublin Bus.
You get three of them in quick succession, 2026, 2027, 2028.
One thing I noticed in looking at all the footage
from NASA, and it is spectacular, the footage and the images and the audio and all that sort of thing, is the number of women who are in NASA.
I remember all those
sort of news clips that you would have seen back in the 60s and 70s.
Pathé news.
That it was just loads of men in white shirts and black ties.
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.