…and you thought this was the 21st century (Part II)
Submit on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 06:00
“You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing [i.e. having women aboard a (space)ship–Ed.], but thank God that everything worked out successfully. Of course in the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass [the number of men]. This isn’t discrimination. I’m just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behaviour or something else occurs, that’s what I’m talking about.” — Russian Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov (according to AFP) apparently thinks he has found the true reason behind the ballistic re-entry of Soyuz TMA-11, whose crew comprised one man and two women
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