65dBnoise on Nostr: I don't mean anything. I searched quite a bit online, and the article above was the ...

I don't mean anything. I searched quite a bit online, and the article above was the only one I found that described in detail what was going on at the time. Since I don't know the views of Scott and of the rest of people directly involved in making the plaque, I'd hesitate to put the blame on them; in fact, nobody seems to have done so, AFAICT.

In general though, a glance at a photo of all people trained to be astronauts tells enough about racial equality of the time.