Did you know that 450 men and women have gone into space and yet not a single one of them — active or retired — is openly gay? So all of those who mocked Lance Bass for training to go into space didn't realize he really would have gone where no gay man had gone before. 
A blogger on Wired.com speculates as to why this is the case including the conservative nature of NASA, the fact that many astronauts have military backgrounds, and — I love this one — the fact that all of the astronauts have to live in Texas. Ouch!
Two of NASA's field centers do have GLBT support groups, and there have been some prominent out NASA employees, but it truly is depressing that in 2008, not only has Star Trek not managed to put a gay person into space, but neither has NASA. Beam me out of here, Scotty.
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*AfterElton.com
--Wizard's Note: To see gays in space goto www.hiddenfrontier.com
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