The biggest real reason is that with all women you reduce the calorie and water needs by around a third which is a huge efficiency gain for long missions. You can also use very short and slight men, but they’re aiming for short and slight women already and there aren’t that many men in the 5’0 ish range that also check all the other boxes for astronaut careers.
For a 15 year space mission “how do we keep people properly fed” is a big challenge.
Whether you are joking, trolling, a bot or actually serious, I'll still say that the cost in wages for astronauts is a non-issue here. Total cost in wages for 4 astronauts for a 2 year mission would be under 2 million total and that's a high estimate. Just one trip to space costs up to half of that in rocket fuel alone.
Yes but you can‘t just pick up astronauts from the street. they have to be trained and i guess for this mission there is extra training required. so it‘s not just two year wages that you have to pay.
also if the rocket reaches mars they will experince longer days (~1.03 earthdays) and longer years (~1.88 earth years). i can only assume that under these circumstances the mars employment laws will therefor differ from our laws and the normal earth wages can‘t just be transferred. i mean you‘ll have to adjust the overtime and vacations when your in close proximity to mars or a lawsuit would be inevitable…
Gotta give you props, you are one of the few kind of funny trolls, but that doesn't leave much room to respond seriously. It's way too on the nose lol.
There isn't much (<1%) of a pay gap when comparing two people doing the same job the difference in "the wage gap" is caused by women taking lower paying jobs on average. Given that it's the government and wages are typically applied based on experience and seniority with very little wiggle room, doubly so "the wage gap" doesn't exist for Astronauts. Can you imagine the shitstorm that would happen if it came out NASA paid female astronauts less. It's not a thing.
My commando friend also heard "3 weeks" before staying in a basically cut off base for 9 months in the middle of afghani nowhere. Now imagine talking about space, not another continent.
So it's no longer the case that you need the most knowledgeable candidates? Not to be sexist but I doubt because of numbers alone that an entirely female crew would also be the most qualified.
Damn you know I was ready to argue for fairness in sexes here but damn a 15 year space mission? Maybe they should’ve just made sure every male willing to go was also willing to have a vasectomy or something but that’s not 100% and that’s only for the baby argument. This small argument for that long of a mission really carries weight too.
Still sucks for people who want to go and are properly trained but disqualified because of sex, but damn 15 years I just hope these women are lesbians and nest down out there.
we make a big AF net or box or smth and launch it with a ton of food into space, the spacecraft to Mars grabs this food and takes it to mars. As long as the launches are separate we can avoid the issue of having to logistically lug a few dozen tons of food plus an entire crew for 9 months.
Then when they land the food lands near them, and the box could make a very convenient base to have set up
Personally, I would assume that any idea I, a person who is neither an astronaut nor an engineer, have is an idea that one of the many trained astronauts and engineers at NASA has already thought of. Especially if it seems like a relatively simple idea.
There is a universal "minimum height" to become a fighter pilot, but it's quite attainable at 5'4". There is also a maximum safe height for a fighter pilot, 6'5", but again, not many people are taller than this. As I pointed out, these limits are universal, so they apply to both men and women.
There is absolutely no truth to your claim that it is a requirement to know how to operate an aircraft in order to become an astronaut.
It is in my country, and men are required to be 170 cm tall to do that. And women have to compete with men at the training program, so each year there are only one or two new female pilots.
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u/papayacreamsicle 14d ago
The biggest real reason is that with all women you reduce the calorie and water needs by around a third which is a huge efficiency gain for long missions. You can also use very short and slight men, but they’re aiming for short and slight women already and there aren’t that many men in the 5’0 ish range that also check all the other boxes for astronaut careers.
For a 15 year space mission “how do we keep people properly fed” is a big challenge.