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Over the Hill GamingGiving credit where credit is due.
crispy branzino β (sold out forever)@overthehill the second woman in space was also an accomplished soviet cosmonaut. The USA only started female astronaut candidates because they were losing the PR war against the USSR.
m0xEE@overthehill
The same Tereshkova who proposed to lift the term limits for Pooteen and who was instrumental in getting him reβ¦ ehm, "elected" β she deserves credit for this too π
The same Tereshkova who proposed to lift the term limits for Pooteen and who was instrumental in getting him reβ¦ ehm, "elected" β she deserves credit for this too π
Kyle Memoir ππ§Did even one of them notice the thin strip of gas that keeps us alive?
The highest elevation human settlement is 16.7k feet ASL, or 3.1 miles. 25% of the residents suffer hypoxia, amongst other issues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rinconada,_Peru
That's it folks.
A strip of atmosphere 0.04% of earth's diameter that weβre filling with CO2 for space selfies and other wastefulness.
Ah, forget it.
Far easier to attack non-whites, trans and autistic people than corporate goliaths.
Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)@f800gecko @overthehill A good model for that is a class room globe. Wipe it down with a wet cloth. The film of water on it is about the thickness of the breathable atmosphere.
ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦@f800gecko Yes they did notice, Kyle. Look up some of the things early astronauts said about seeing Earth from space.
My post was ambiguous - I meant this latest batch of space tourists. I've pinned a quote from William Shatner after his spaceflight that makes for quite a contrast from the coverage we saw on this occasion.
Again, as much a media failure as one of the participants this time around.
RAK@overthehill: An actual cosmonaut on her own merit, no less.
Obot 50549535@overthehill And Tereshkova's flight was orbital -- the recent Blue Origin stunt was just a sounding rocket.
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Torf und Schnee@overthehill and now she is thoroughly serving putin's regime in the russian imitation of parliament.
Kevin Karhan 
@overthehill #Funfact: #Tereshkova sit's in #Russia|s #Duma for #Putin's party and also said she'd happily accept a one-way mission to #Mars...
C.Suthorn 
Sowohl der russische als auch der Amazon-Flug waren PR-Shows mit automatisierten Raketen, die vom Boden aus gesteuert wurden.
Einen wirklichen Beitrag in diesem Sektor haben (vor allem) schwarze Frauen geleistet, die als "Computer" viele der Berechnungen gemacht haben, die derartige unternehmungen ΓΌberhaupt erst ermΓΆglicht haben.
Siehe zB Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly/Theodore Melfi.
L'Γ©grΓ©gore AndrΓ© κκ¬@kkarhan @overthehill I meanβ¦ if she can get Putin and the other billionaires on board, literally, I'm all for it!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H9oLSMSW4SI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H9oLSMSW4SI
Max Romeo - Chase The Devil [HD]
kami_kadse@kkarhan @overthehill doesn't change a thing about her being the first all female space flight
Chuck@overthehill And she was actually the crew, not just a passenger being called "crew".
TC Won't Give In To LiesAnd Tereshkova was an engineer who spent 3 days in space. Respect!
Not a pop star who spent 11 minutes as human baggage.
We should absolutely see Bezos's stunt as the publicity sham it was. And we should #TaxTheRich who clearly have money to burn.
beSpacific@overthehill 10 minute thank you. PR stunt by wealthy "space tourists" vs: the term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "star sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard #NASA spacecraft bound for #orbit and beyond.
Wolf480pl@overthehill wait, did anyone claim that this was the first ever all-female crew?
Everyone I heard talk about it said sth like "first all-female crew in the last 60 years, the previous one being Tereshkova"
Ben Avison@overthehill Pedantically, the first occupied space flight of all, in 1957, was also all-female. And poor old Laika had about as much control over her spacecraft as those in the recent celebrity flight.
In practice, the lack of all-female flights has more to do with the fact that only about 1 in 8 astronauts are female, combined with the fact that crew complements have nearly always been at least 3 for the last 50 years or so - simple maths show the chance of all-female crews being selected at random are then at best 0.2%.
The gender bias amongst astronauts is the real scandal here. By all accounts, itβs largely due to discrimination at NASA, even before the recent administration came to power, and undoubtedly likewise at Roscosmos.
T2R@overthehill The Blue Origin stunt was astrotourism and they were passengers, not astronauts.
flere-imsaho πΊπ¦@overthehill it's indeed better to remember that the first female cosmonaut is a russian imperialist praising genocidal invasion and war with ukraine.
(never meet your heroes)
JanPV@overthehill I saw her re-entry capsule once. Absolutely amazing after reading about it all so many decades ago.
Yaoi Box Balloon@overthehill Damn that is a good point.
It wasn't even obscure knowledge in any way.
As a kid in the 90s (in the West but not US) this was in my science book. Her, Gargarin & Buzz Aldrin were the first 'space people' I ever learned about.
Gargarin I still occasionally hear about but moreso Aldrin. But Tereshkova I've not heard about in decades.
beaumains@overthehill Tereshkova isn't a great role model BTW.
She is a politician now in Russia. Voted for lifting term limits in Putin, and for the invasion of Ukraine.
@overthehill Well said
CockneyLaurie@overthehill This is important, certainly she was actually an important figure in history, though of course she was there so the USSR could claim another first over their rivals in the space race.
But she is far from a saint because sadly she has also been a PooTin supporter, even recently.
But she is far from a saint because sadly she has also been a PooTin supporter, even recently.
@overthehill
"In December 2022, the European Union (EU) had placed sanctions on various Russian media personalities and politicians including Tereshkova, which involves freezing assets and banning them from entering EU member states." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
"In December 2022, the European Union (EU) had placed sanctions on various Russian media personalities and politicians including Tereshkova, which involves freezing assets and banning them from entering EU member states." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
Vincarsi@overthehill there have been so many women in space before Perry. Canada's top astronaut in the 2000's was a woman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Payette
galar@overthehill They could include a black astronaut for a publicity stunt but a) their boss would not approve a DEI flight and b) they don't know any black person.
cholling@overthehill Not to mention that she actually, you know, went to space.
november@overthehill As much as I have issues with Valentina being considered a cosmonaut (she had parachute training, but was not a pilot or scientist, the USSR basically just went "we should send a woman up. How about...her, sure she'll work" instead of actually picking a talented woman), but I'd count most of the people onboard the BO flight as self-loading cargo too, so it's not like that's really better.
mantisUSSR space programs btw, good times for ALL members of society, except the Nazis.