All-Female Volunteer Space Crew Is Cool Without Makeup

Yesterday (Oct. 28), six Russian women locked themselves in a suite at Moscow’s Institute of Biomedical Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences for the start of an eight-day experiment simulating the conditions of a space mission.

“It’s interesting for us to see what is special about the way a female crew communicates”. “When you’re doing your work, you don’t think about men and women”, participant Anna Kussmaul reportedly countered.

In addition to facing sexist scrutiny from reporters, the crew were also condescended to by Institute director Igor Ushakov, who warned them “It will be particularly interesting in terms of psychology”.

The women will carry out various psychological experiments while inside the capsule. “I’d like to wish you a lack of conflicts, even though they say that in one kitchen, two housewives find it hard to live together”.

As all-women Russian crew prepares for 2029 Moon mission, we must remember another daring experiment performed in 2010.

The first Russian female astronaut to travel into space was Valentina Tereshkova.

Getty ImagesRussian Space Station crew member Elena Serova side-eyes something unrelated earlier this year.

Ponomaryov called the latest experiment an effort to make up for lost time. It is expected that in 2023 the spacecraft docks with the ISS, while in 2023 it will perform the first trip to the Moon, without any crew aboard. “We trust ladies may not just be no more regrettable than men at performing certain undertakings in space, in any case better”.

Like their counterparts on the global Space Station the women will have no shower, washing with wet wipes instead.

So, too, is male company left behind, they add, assessing busy workdays ahead and leisure hours constrained for the time being to reading, games to play and films to watch.

Luckily, it seems like the experiment’s participants are more than prepared to deal with male idiocy; speaking at the press conference on Wednesday, Team leader Yelena Luchnitskaya said “I can’t imagine what would rattle us”.

“We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the Moon”, said Berengere Houdou, head of the lunar exploration group at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre.