NASA has taken yet another giant leap for personkind.
The space agency announced that it has completed an IT project at its Goddard Space Flight Center in which it allowed 125 of the employees tested to have the option of including their gender pronouns in NASA’s email display fields. Soon, all NASA employees will be able to “show allyship to the LGBTQIA+ community” by including their preferred pronouns in their agency emails.
“NASA is fully committed to supporting every employee’s right to be addressed by their correct name and pronouns,” NASA Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity Steve Shih said. “All NASA employees currently have the option and flexibility to include their gender pronouns in their customized email signature blocks.”
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 18,000-worker agency has an annual budget of over $23 billion, but it has been criticized for a lack of historic breakthroughs and dependence on Russia to get to and from the International Space Station. The new emphasis on social science drew mockery from the Twitterverse.
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“Congratulations NASA, completely Revolutionary work, anyways,” a user called Nekkro tweeted. “How’s that trip to Mars working out?”
“This is why we don’t have a base on the Moon yet,” a Twitter user named Russ Emerson added.
It would be great if you were committed to being an innovative, first-rate space agency again and not a bureaucratic money pit. But, please, keep worrying about pronouns. https://t.co/l2vfeA3Qmx
— Cody Derespina (@CDerespina) March 10, 2022
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NASA is now run by former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, who in 1986 Nelson became the second sitting member of Congress to fly in space when he flew on the space shuttle Columbia.
