Ganga on Nostr: It only sounds funny because they don't use it. If they used it, it would become ...
It only sounds funny because they don't use it. If they used it, it would become standard.
But perhaps it is the press that uses manned, and not NASA:
"While manned and unmanned are still commonly used in news sources to describe spaceflights with and without human crews, respectively, NASA has since the early 21st century used and prescribed non-gender-specific terms, preferring such descriptors as human, piloted, and crewed for the former, and unpiloted and uncrewed for the latter."
But perhaps it is the press that uses manned, and not NASA:
"While manned and unmanned are still commonly used in news sources to describe spaceflights with and without human crews, respectively, NASA has since the early 21st century used and prescribed non-gender-specific terms, preferring such descriptors as human, piloted, and crewed for the former, and unpiloted and uncrewed for the latter."