NASA Wipes Graphic Novels About Girls Astronauts From Its Web sites

NASA has scrubbed two graphic novels that includes feminine astronauts from its web site, in a transfer that’s in obvious alignment with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI stance.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) insurance policies are people who usually promote truthful therapy of individuals of all backgrounds. The Trump administration isn’t a fan of DEI—on the primary day of Trump’s second time period, the White Home called DEI packages “unlawful and immoral” and declared that the federal government is “dedicated to serving each particular person with equal dignity and respect.” To that finish, plainly NASA eliminated graphic novels a few fictional feminine astronaut named Callie Rodriguez from its web site.

As reported by Keith Cowing of NASA Watch, the graphic novels had been on-line for years. (“Apparently NASA DEI Sanitation Squad is utilizing my postings to assist them delete issues,” Cowing wrote.) The collection titles have been “First Lady: NASA’s Promise for Humanity” and “First Lady: Increasing Our Universe.”

The house company left up releases saying editions of the graphic novels and updates to the collection, however the primary touchdown web page—devoted to Rodriguez’s story because the (fictional) first girl to stroll on the Moon—now yields a 404 error. NASA’s Press Secretary Bethany Stevens didn’t reply to a request for remark.

In January, NASA moved to terminate diversity programs, and final month the company knowledgeable its staff that they may no longer show pronouns of their on-line profiles, from e mail signatures to their Microsoft Outlook accounts.

This week alone has been a turbulent one for NASA underneath the Trump administration—a number of days in the past, the company terminated $420 million in contracts, in accordance with the the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has slashing headcount on the federal authorities since its creation by govt order on Trump’s first day in workplace. It stays to be seen how drastically DOGE, underneath the management of Elon Musk, will alter operations on the nation’s house company.