Why Aren't There Any Openly Gay Astronauts?
When you buy through links on our site , we may bring in an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Three hundred and thirty American men and woman have served as cosmonaut since the showtime ofNASA ’s human spaceflight programme . Only one is in public acknowledge to have been gay or epicene — Sally Ride — and she kept it private until her decease , yesterday ( July 23 ) , when her necrology on the Sally Ride Science organization ’s website put forward that Ride was survived by Tam O’Shaughnessy , her " partner of 27 twelvemonth ....