Oh, you think the Soviet space program was egalitarian? A guy was rude to a lady once! Not like NASA, which only sent a woman to space way after that! smuglord

[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Some gross shit that invades my brain again whenever people bring up sexism in the US during the space race:

Wernher von Braun, asked about female astronauts in the sixties, had joked that the men in charge were “reserving 110 pounds of payload for recreational equipment.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/19/a-brief-history-of-spacefarers/

Wonder what that guy’s deal was?

[von Braun] became a member of the Nazi Party and then the Allgemeine SS to support his rocket work. He led the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany, and later of rocket and space technology in the US.

Oh.

[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

[von Braun] became a member of the Nazi Party and then the Allgemeine SS to support his rocket work.

Don't worry guys, it was just to support his rocket work. Really, he was just a smol innocent researcher

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

not my department

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you think the USSR was so egalitarian, explain to me why only the USA has killed both men and women with cost cutting measures in a rushed shuttle program smuglord

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Happy I get to use this twice

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i love that they got the actual schoolhouse rock guy to sing that

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's one of those things that really got drilled into my head

Also, Simpsons predicted the Jan. 6th Capitol Riot