1978 Astronaut Announcement — NASA
Keith’s note: Back in January 2025 several days after the Trump 2.0 team took over NASA, I posted this item about the first astronaut class chosen by NASA that included women and minorities. 24 hours after I posted this the link was taken down. This is what it looked like 2 days before the NASA DEIA cops took it down. 9 months later and it is still down. Why? Oddly, this page from January 1978, which says the same things, is still online. Let’s see if the DEIA cops nuke it too. Keith’s 26 January 2025 note: Looks like this DEIA-oriented page at NASA.gov needs to be erased ASAP: “45 Years Ago: NASA Selects 35 New Astronauts“. On Jan. 16, 1978, NASA announced the selection of 35 new astronauts, the first time in more than eight years that the agency had admitted new astronauts. The selection of the first class of space shuttle astronauts held historic significance not only because of its then-record size but also because, for the first time, the group included women and minorities. Previous astronaut selections in the 1960s consisted of test pilots or scientists, in those days the domain principally of white men.“ Update: I posted this on Sunday morning, 26 January. I checked today – 27 January – and it is gone.