Anonymous asked:
womeninspace answered:
Ok, you got me speechless. I’m assuming you are a sexist troll, but just in case you are not, let me explain why you are wrong.
You see, I really would like to explain you why the women involved in the cause of the challenger explosion were not to blame. I really would like to explain why the women involved had just as much responsibility as the men and not any more either.
But I can’t, because there were NO women involved.
The cause of the challenger is well understood. The O-rings in the boosters failed due to low temperatures. This could occur since the seals were note tested to the proper environmental conditions, and subsequently objections to the launch were not taken seriously enough. Every person involved in the decision to launch Challenger, even after (the male) engineers of the producer Morton Thiokol raised objections to launching, were male. You can read it all in the Rogers Commission Report.
I can think of 3 women somewhat involved. Sally Ride was part of the Rogers commission researching the disaster, together with 13 males. And astronauts Judith Resnik and Christa Mcauliffe, who were victims of this disaster and both not involved in flying the space shuttle. There rest was male, look at the launch control photos, all male. Even more than today, back then NASA was male dominated. If you really want to blame a gender (which is a ridiculous thing to do anyway), blame males.
I won’t go into your last sexist remark about sports, just note that the youngest person to sail around the world was a woman, Also in for example archery women score similar as men.
I seriously don’t know were you get these ideas. They’re ill informed, just plain wrong, and above all sexist.
