{"id":131835,"date":"2021-12-05T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/why-men-are-so-into-space-and-why-that-sucks-for-women"},"modified":"2021-12-05T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:22:18","slug":"why-men-are-so-into-space-and-why-that-sucks-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/why-men-are-so-into-space-and-why-that-sucks-for-women","title":{"rendered":"Why men are so into space (and why that sucks for women)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-men-are-so-into-space-and-why-that-sucks-for-women2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHE MORE WE TRY TO FORCE EQUALITY, THE MORE WE\u2019RE CREATING A DIVIDE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amy Shira Teitel<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And it was male-helmed mega-companies that spurred this surge in space travel. In July, Richard Branson launched himself into suborbital flight on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-space-tourism\">Virgin Galactic spacecraft<\/a>. A week later, Jeff Bezos followed suit on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/blue-origin-delayed-moon\">Blue Origin rocket<\/a>. Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX launched the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spacex-inspiration-4\">all-civilian space flight<\/a> in mid-September. Then, Bezos brought sci-fi to life by sending Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, on a suborbital flight in October.<\/p>\n<p>While women made their own history \u2014 as members of the first all-civilian space flight in September, and when Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman astronaut to do a spacewalk on November 8 \u2014 men seemingly remain light years ahead in the gender space race.<\/p>\n<p>Space, inherently, should interest all of us. We are literally made of stardust. There is, very likely, intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Yet, while space feels deeply compelling to some, for many others it is unrelatable, inaccessible, and irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTHE MORE WE TRY TO FORCE EQUALITY, THE MORE WE\u2019RE CREATING A DIVIDE.\u201d Amy Shira Teitel And it was male-helmed mega-companies that spurred this surge in space travel. In July, Richard Branson launched himself into suborbital flight on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft. A week later, Jeff Bezos followed suit on a Blue Origin rocket. Elon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}