NASA Removes Graphic Novels About Women Astronauts

First Woman: NASA's Promise for Humanity
First Woman: Expanding Our Universe
Here is copies of them if anyone is interested.
This person has them in Spanish as well https://sh.itjust.works/comment/17675694
- Thank you sir. Duely downloaded and replicated for further distribution.

The pettyness of all this shit is what's really shocking...
- I'm not shocked at all. They literally said exactly what they were going to do and now they are doing it.
  Learn to expect the most stupid and evil outcome of any situation from now on and preemptively fight to secure what you deem important in whatever way you can.

Cowards.
- All of them. Afraid of giving anyone an equal playing field, straight afraid of women. Hold everyone down, insecure little men.

If you think this is bad, imagine what it portends for women astronauts.

This anti-DEI measures are completely crazy.
- Anti-DEI is just a newfangled way of saying white men only.

If we survive this, we really should switch to a matriarchal society.
- I'd love to live in a society where no particular gender held most positions of power or had more legislative influence.
  
  Sure, but if we HAD to have a gender in charge, I'd prefer women.
- as a treat
  
  And a break! Patriarchy hurts everyone.
- The problem is too many won't go for it. I recently met a guy who completely voted against his own best interests just because Kamala was born with a vagina instead of a penis. He admitted it freely, so he knowingly voted for the people who want to make people like him slaves again. It's absolutely mind boggling.
- I'm not against the idea at all, but there are pletny of women in power at the federal level that are absolute dogshit as well.
- Yes, merit is overrated. We should just get more of Giorgia Meloni, Alice Weidel and Marine Le Pen. Clearly Europe is on the right track...
- Have you not seen tumblr? You'll just get Elon Musk with a vagina and a hate-on for anyone capable of having a hard-on.... Even if they aren't men.
  So an even more mask-off JK Rowling
- Statistically, women leaders start more wars than men, so a matriarchal society signs us up for more war. The group statistically likely to start less wars is former soldiers, probably because they know the horrors.
  Maybe leadership is more “content of character” than a gender issue
  
  Women being leaders in a patriarchal society will probably behave like leaders in a patriarchal society.
  
  One single woman in charge is not a matriarchy.
- I saw a Sliders episode like that and if I recall it was pretty sweet
  
  I don't know about that. If I recall that woman got busted for hiding men at her place. They knew because the toilet seats were left up!
  
  Oh god I remember that episode. I haven't seen it for so long that I have to see it again.

What's next? Rename the Artemis program because we can't be flying to the moon under some lady name? Probably change it to Ares, god of war and courage. That's a very manly man name, just as the good lords Jesus and Trump intended.
- Change it to Donald, god of bone spurs and bigotry.
  
  Lesser demi-god at best.
  
  I'm imagining those early rocket failures where they just fall over and burst into flames.
- The moon program in the 1960s was originally called Artemis and got renamed to Apollo for the same reasoning.
  So it'll probably get renamed to Apollo 2.
  
  The Quickening
  
  The Russians have simply continued the count of the Soviet Luna missions.
- Odds are they pick a Confederate general.
- Don’t give them ideas!!
  
  The F-47 has entered the chat.
- Wasn't Ares actually the name for a previous attempt at return to the moon?

NASA is going down the drain under the new regime. If you're interested in space exploration, shift your gaze over to the ESA or CNSA.
- What will happen to the Artemis program? :(
  
  The Artemis program never had any legs. The entire thing was being done in the most stupid way possible simply so that NASA could use SLS, a rocket that was completely incapable of actually fulfilling it stated mission. It was like the Apollo missions but without the lander.
  
  Same thing that was always going to happen to it: It's not gonna fly. It's been canceled or clean sheet restarted at least once by every administration since inception, and frankly that rope has been pretty thoroughly pissed up.

The amount of puss-outs to the fat orange is absolutely boggling

Where can i read them now? Did anybody downloaded those comics and is willing to share them?
- I have both pdf issues in english and spanish and the audiobook that they made for issue 1 and the .apk for the android app (idk how to get ios apps). I don't know what to do with them yet. The website is available on internet archive, you can read both issues on there. For some reason issue 2 eng/sp .pdf were still on the nasa site if you have the direct link.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20250301192918/https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst/
  Edit: Uploaded pdf to libgen (usr:genesis pw:upload) idk why it does that, they should get indexed on the other sites eventually.
  https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/B350EFC83F5305367A5CFA57281BF422
  https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/D8AB8F29A0A0986403468CDC937A1722
  https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/ED10ED2E59E0BD9E69E06B855651CE2B
  https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/A1329C346561FB661F143351E2BBB99C
- https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/

Soon they will just be pushing women down stairs just for fun. Such MAGAts.
- Naw that might cause miscarriages, can’t be having that!
  
  I actually think that's their preferred method of abortion. That way they can really get out all the anger in one go.

I'm curious: the USA wants to dominate the final frontier, how will they ensure a civilization can thrive without woman in those new settlements?
Anyways, the idea is horrific and stupid, let's hope the US implodes.
- I always remember the question for Bill Gates were someone asked him if the Middle East will ever catch up with the rest of the world technology wise. And his answer was basically "no" because you shut out half of your population, holding women down.
- With bottling Embryos like in Brave New World probably. That sounds about weird enough for Musk and his fellow band of shitheads
  
  Musk doesn't even have sex physically. Almost all his kids were made by surgically impregnating the women coerced into having his kids.
  
  Imagine a clone colony of Trump's, Musks and Hegseaths. Can't imagine they would last long.
- The far right morons and the cowards enabling them are fucking things up for its own sake. They're not thinking ahead. They're not actually even thinking, they're just reacting to imaginary shit.
  They aren't the USA, they're the parasites the USA is infected with.
  
  they’re the parasites
  They're the elected parasites... that should tell you a bit about who voted.
  
  They are half of the USA at least, the other half are mostly dems, I have zero sympathy for them.
- They don't want no women, they want subservient women. Think Handmaid's Tale in space.

Those were idealistic and aspirational. What we should be.
They can't cancel the graphic novel that accurately depicts what it's like being a woman in aerospace.

people saved them before they were Taken down.
https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/
- Keith’s 23 March update: within a few hours after this was posted (over a weekend) A NASA YouTube video and an official NASA photo of two female astronauts were pulled offline. Both things had been online for several years. This is not the first time this has happened. Apparently NASA DEI Sanitation Squad is using my postings to help them delete things. Details below.
  So has anybody saved the YouTube video?
  
  yeah, it's right in that same article.
  looks like that's the "details below" part of that paragraph.

Fucking excellent use of our tax dollars right here. Along with scrubbing the Enola Gay n shit.
- It is at least making it obvious which of our government institutions are bootlicking cowards.

So, I'm curious if they're just bowing to trump in extreme desperation to keep federal funding, otherwise they're out of a job? Or, do they have some maga right wingers in leadership at NASA?
My guess and hope is the former. If true, maybe they have to come off as spineless just to keep being funded. I dunno, just speculating.
- My guess is a bit of both. As a woman who's spent some time working in IT, there are still more than enough men who are pissed at having to include women and would jump at the opportunity to get them out of the door or degrade them as soon as possible. Give them an opportunity like "Oh no, now we have to take those women-related things down. Just in case, gotta keep our funding. Too bad, so sad." and they'll jump on it.

NASA is always, and in the first place a military organisation in service of the US regime.

Reaction: mixed.
Why: fruit of a poisoned tree.
Elaboration: you want art promoting good things to be sincere, because if it's not sincere, then it's not promoting anything, like Disney's "kinda diversity-aimed" actions toward Star Wars ; art is sincere when it's not pushed ; when something is promoted by an agency, it's pushed, even if those making decisions and those making said art share the idea, the former give the latter an order and make it their job.
Context\apology: I think the same about Soviet propaganda art, it may be promoting something good sometimes, but that effect of hierarchy can be felt ; or a few recent movies made about the Armenian Genocide, all intended as a political message about, well, leaving said process unfinished and thus are not interesting as art ; or about FOSS propaganda with almost no effect, if someone remembers those videos about Linux Mint and those FOSS bloggers like Nixie Pixel, that kinda stuff.
- What are you on about?
- You come across as having an ugly agenda yourself.
  
  Which specifically would that be? Surely you can explain that if you can evaluate my "agenda" as ugly.
  Maybe what I wrote meant literally what I wrote. That an agenda is always ugly. People who want to fix the world via right kinds of propaganda seem to dislike that.

Don't worry, worry-worts. There is an armada of data hoarders who will bring this all back after the purge. Data doesn't die as long as nerds and geeks like me exist to persist the knowledge we have attained. Be of good cheer - nobody viewed that data before except a select few who cared, it is still there for them just not officially hosted by our broken system...it will be unbroken soon enough.