A new policy that would embrace “wokeness” is now being applied at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is after NASA announced on Thursday that it will allow its employees to use their preferred gender pronouns in email communications.
Claims recently surfaced online that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland removed employees’ pronouns from ID badges. Now, the space agency has made a public statement about its stance on employee names and pronouns.
Statement from NASA on Wednesday says “NASA is fully committed to supporting every employee’s right to be addressed by their correct name and pronouns. All NASA employees currently have the option and flexibility to include their gender pronouns in their customized email signature blocks. This option remains unchanged and is supported by NASA leadership so that employees can share their gender identities and show allyship to the LGBTQIA+ community.”
NASA Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity Steve Shih also said “Through an effort to create a more inclusive workplace, NASA recently completed an IT project at Goddard Space Flight Center that allowed approximately 125 employees to test the option of including their gender pronouns in NASA’s email display fields — which currently includes each employee’s name, center, and an organizational code.”
Shih also added, “The learnings from this test will be used to inform the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.”
Americans are now questioning and criticizing NASA’s focus on gender identities and LGBTQIA+ allyship instead of developing space capabilities after the announcement was made.
We’re committed to supporting the right of every employee at NASA to be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns.
Click here to read a statement from our Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity in regards to a recent gender pronouns IT project: https://t.co/Z8Q1H0WIND pic.twitter.com/MlHDJWCrhL
— NASA (@NASA) March 10, 2022
The iconic Space Shuttle made its last flight in 2011, leaving the United States without a spacecraft that can reach the International Space Station or orbit the Earth for more than a decade.
American astronauts were dependent on Russian Soyuz spacecraft until NASA contracted with private company SpaceX.
The Western Journal reported
NASA Astronauts flew onboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for the first time in May 2020. Then-Vice President Mike Pence set a goal for NASA to return American astronauts to the moon in 2020.
The last American manned mission to the moon took place in 1972.
Some have raised questions about the Chinese or European space agencies upstaging NASA, taking the lead in humanity’s quest to reach the stars. With America’s space agency focused on gender pronouns, it’s not too hard to imagine an alternative leaving the woke ideologues in the dust.
Sources: Western Journal, Washington Examiner, Conservative News Daily, Daily Wire, Space