In article <m3lng5s99t.fsf at hubert.wuh.wustl.edu>, Alan Shutko <ats at acm.org>
writes:
|> I'm interested in reactions to
|>http://www2.astrobiology.com/nasa/girl.crew.html . Is the proposal a
|> good thing, a bad thing, or simply irrelevant?
Well, I haven't followed the link yet, but the title (*girl* crew?)
makes me think of a Japanimation slumber party in outer space....
Certainly an all-female shuttle mission could provide useful data
on the effects of space flight on females, with population n>2
subjected to the same environmental conditions. Other than that
(and the nifty NASA publicity!) I can't think of any reason that
an all-female crew would be inherently better or worse than any
otherwise-gendered crew....
Karen Alfrey
alfrey at rice.edu
