Side-by-side meme format. Left panel labeled “How it started:” shows three news headlines on a dark background: “Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites” (404 Media, Feb 4, 2025); “NASA Websites No Longer Promote ‘First Woman’ on the Moon for Artemis” (Orlando Sentinel); and “NASA Wipes Vow to Land Woman on Moon from Website Amid Trump DEI Purge” (Axios, Mar 25, 2025). Right panel labeled “How it’s going:” shows a dramatic photo of an astronaut’s silhouette gazing at Earth through a spacecraft window.
Three black-and-white portrait photographs of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson, African American mathematicians and engineers who made significant contributions to NASA's space program in the 1950s and 1960s.
NASA official portrait of astronaut Sally Ride in her blue flight suit (left), and a recent photograph of Tam O'Shaughnessy, Ride's life partner of 27 years, science educator, and co-founder of Sally Ride Science (right).
Astronaut Victor Glover gazes at Earth through a spacecraft window aboard Artemis II, his silhouette illuminated against the vivid blue and white curve of the planet below.
You can remove our colleagues who are women or Black or Brown or LGBTQ from agency websites & their images from agency walls
But you can’t erase this: bc of those heroes of the past we have these heroes today inspiring future heroes
Thank you Dorothy, Katherine, Mary, Sally, Christina & Victor ❤️🚀
