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Giant leap for womankind? Europe’s space agency wants more female astronauts – Sight Magazine
Space – the next frontier for gender equality? Europe’s space agency launched a mission this week to take on more women astronauts as it kicked off its first recruitment…
10 February 2021
LIN TAYLOR
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation
Space – the next frontier for gender equality? Europe’s space agency launched a mission this week to take on more women astronauts as it kicked off its first recruitment campaign for more than a decade.
Nearly 60 years since the first human blasted off into space, women account for just 11 per cent of the 560 people who have traveled beyond the earth’s atmosphere, according to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.
NASA…
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