NASA scrubbed its website to remove mentions of minorities and inclusion [Mixture]
NASA scrubbed its website to remove mentions of minorities and inclusion [Mixture]
Change logs show that NASA has removed mentions of underrepresented people from various parts of its website.
What's True
The space agency's website had been scrubbed and changed to remove references to inclusion, diversity, gender and minorities, among other terms. It had also been modified to remove Spanish translations "per Fed mandate," according to NASA website change logs on GitHub. Further, a feature about one woman, geologist Wendy Bohon, had been removed from the website two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump took office. However …
What's False
… a page about women at NASA still appeared on the website as of this writing.
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Just throwing an anecdote out there, but just went to nasa.gov myself, entered "Sally Ride" in their search box, and it pulled up several pieces about her. This is as of February 7th, 2025 for a reference for those that see this comment at some later date.