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NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

March 26, 2025 / Leave a comment

Things have gotten really weird when comic books are verboten in this Orwellian present. NASA has deleted two comic books about women astronauts from all its websites, according to NASA Watch, the latest victim of the Trump’s administration’s purge of “DEI” content from federal agencies. This is apparently due to a directive sent out just days after Trump’s inauguration, as NASA personnel were commanded to excise all mentions of anything “specifically targeting” women on the space agency’s public websites according to 404 Media.

NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts
Frank Landymore (Mar 25, 2025)

Additionally, NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions had been set to see the first female astronaut set foot on the lunar surface. Oh, except that promise has been dropped, too.

The two volumes have been featured on NASA’s website since being issued in 2021 and 2023, respectively. But as of March 2025, both have now been conspicuously wiped from the space agency’s online presence.

But luckily, they’ve been posted on wikipedia AND preserved in the Internet Archive!

First Woman: NASA’s promise for humanity

Today on “beautiful public data”: Government Comic Books!

November 27, 2023 / Leave a comment

Today’s issue of “beautiful public data” takes a deep dive into Government Comic Books! The post explains the history of comic books since the 1950s.

BPD government comics

Today’s post references an interesting book called “Government Issue: Comics for the People 1940s-2000s.” by Richard Graham. Graham, a professor of libraries at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln has been collecting these unique comics since childhood.

I also highly recommend subscribing to the Beautiful Public Data newsletter written by Jon Keegan. Keegan is an investigative data journalist who writes for The Markup and other outfits. The BPD tagline is “A curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies.” And that’s just what he does. Go check it out if you haven’t subscribed yet.

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