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European Space Agency to recruit more female astronauts and people with disabilities – ABC News
More than half a century after Neil Armstrong declared a “giant leap for mankind”, Europe’s equivalent of NASA is going on a recruitment drive aimed at women and…
The European Space Agency (ESA) is holding its first astronaut recruitment drive in 11 years and says greater diversity is one of the goals.
- The agency wants to recruit more women and people with disabilities as astronauts
- It says only 65 of the more than 560 people to have gone into space have been women
- It is also launching what it calls the ‘Parastronaut Feasibility Project’
The European equivalent of NASA is seeking to recruit more female astronauts this year, as well as people with disabilities…
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