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"Spacecraft are female"... Huh?
Hubble: male
Webb: male
Cassini: male
Spitzer: male
Chandra: male
Suomi: male
Planck: male
Fermi: male
Dawn: female?
Aura: female?
ARTEMIS: female
Jason: male
Herschel: male
Kepler: male
JUNO: female

I just made a casual survey of the authors and editors of the images that appear on APOD. I noticed that there are virtually no names that are recognizably female. I would estimate that <5% of the APODs are credited to women. This contrasts with current estimates of the participation of women in ast...