Do Female Astronauts Have the Edge Over Male Astronauts For Our First Mars Mission?

PBS Space Time is making the case that if and when there’s a manned NASA Mars mission, that mission would do best to be manned by….women! Check out the vid above for some great points and arguments in favor of the first Mars mission using an all-female crew.

And after watching, tell us what you think in the comments!

While you’re doing that, I’m going to figure out how to achieve my childhood dream of being an astronaut and going to Mars while also still being bad at math and afraid of heights and overweight and… On second thought, maybe I’ll just watch how the mission goes on TV with everyone else.

(via PBS Space Time on YouTube)

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Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.

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