Venus would approve

This shocking news from the male-dominated space exploration frontier: NASA has admitted that 25 percent of the team that sent the explorer New Horizons to Pluto are women.

In the 70s, such a scenario in the testosterone-reeking NASA would have had someone blurting out, “Houston, we have a problem.” But not anymore and definitely not now.

According to the principal investigator of the New Horizons project, Alan Stern, he actively recruited women and younger scientists to the team, drawing kudos from women empowerment activist Fran Bagenal.

Bagenal is known for mentoring young women and working for their increased participation in fields traditionally dominated by men.

"The Voyager and Galileo programs [to explore Jupiter], which got started in the 1970s, were lucky to have a few women,” said Bagenal.

      

“The Cassini [mission to Saturn] was better... And once you get a decent number, it feeds in and grows some more," she added.

      

“But it didn't just happen by chance. People worked very hard to increase the number of women," Bagenal told CNN. 

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