NASA's Artemis missions, which seek to put humans back on the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, have been billed as a feat of diversity in a, it seems that inclusivity efforts at the Artemis missions' home base, Florida's Cape Canaveral, aren't quite there yet., Florida's increasingly extreme anti-transgender laws left Witt, a transgender woman, no choice but to quit her job at a, a spacecraft she helped build. "That was the greatest moment in my life.
"Last year, I was talking about wanting to support the next launch and doing all that," Witt, who has since relocated to Chicago, told the"It feels like I'm being chased out," she added later. "Everything that's happening, it makes me afraid for my life. It makes me afraid for my friends' lives. I feel grief, just an incalculable level of grief."
Witt's account is troubling, and serves as a reminder that though NASA might be a federal body, the folks on the ground working for the agency and its contractors are still subject to the laws and attitudes of the states in which NASA conducts its business.