Katy Perry has made history and not for her albums: she has been one of the six passengers who has been part of the first flight entirely formed by women who travel to space in a tourist rocket. The launch has been a success, if we understand that they have risen and lowered from those 100 kilometers high that are needed to appreciate the ungravation. He has lasted what three songs, in his words, and went down speaking wonders of the experience. With her, in the private rocket of Blue Origin, the couple of the billionaire Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, and other women referring to the struggle for female representation in different fields traveled. Aisha Bowe, who in addition to technological businesswoman, is a aerospace engineer and one of the most prestigious Afro -descendant women in the Stem universe.
Keryanne Flynn, an independent film producer and who has a film focused on gender inequality in the film industry and another of a biographical type about Lilly Ledbetter, one of the lawyers who has contributed the most with her activism in the American struggle against the wage gap between women and men. Amanda Nguyen, a commercial astronaut, who made a rape that suffered in college a cause to claim the impunity of women in the face of sexual aggressions. Also Gayle King, a famous television presenter in the country who has exceeded seventy years of age, an achievement against ageism. Good for all of them and what involves seeing women making history as a speaker for their claims.
Not as good, on the other hand, that this flight that promotes an activity within the reach of millionaires and of doubtful sustainability can eclipse the worrying situation that a NASA project is experiencing such as Artemis, devised and developed to push the real equality of women in the space race and that sought to take women for the first time to the moon, a destination that has still been vetoed. The mission that worked in forced marches to make this dream come true, and that includes a crew formed by women and experts in different scientific disciplines, has suffered a break with Trump’s arrival to power and deployment of its measures contrary to inclusion. NASA has just retired the references on their website for a woman and an African -American man to step on the moon before 2030, as planned.
In the recent “orbital”, the love song in the form of a novel by Samantha Harvey towards humanity from the optics of the International Space Station, one of the protagonists, knowing that her mother has died being in space, recalls a photograph that sent her from the day that man stepped on the moon, in 1969, and where she smiles at the camera in a enigmatic way. That photo stimulated his astronaut career. What did he mean? Maybe a woman has not yet stepped on the moon. 12 men have already done it. But before another woman arrives, it seems that superpower has reoriented her priorities to Mars and without women. The Artemis mission would be a giant step for equality.
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