Karen Nyberg, a former astronaut and the wife of Doug Hurley, one of the two men sent into space last week as part of the historic NASA an...
Karen Nyberg, a former astronaut and the wife of Doug Hurley, one of the two men sent into space last week as part of the historic NASA and SpaceX launch, called the use of images of her and her son that were apart of President Donald Trump's "make space great again" ad as "political propaganda."
I find it disturbing that a video image of me and my son is being used in political propaganda without my knowledge or consent. That is wrong. @nasa @JimBridenstine twitter.com/SciGuySpace/st …
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"I find it disturbing that a video image of me and my son is being used in political propaganda without my knowledge or consent," Nyberg wrote on Twitter. "That is wrong."
The video was no longer on the campaign's YouTube account on Thursday night and was also removed from other social media sites. According to Bloomberg, the Trump campaign pulled the video, ostensibly because it violated NASA's advertisement guidelines by featuring the federal agency's astronauts.
However, other users apparently downloaded the political advertisement before its removal and have reuploaded it to their own YouTube channels.
"NASA is apolitical and others may offer opinions," Jacobs said when asked about NASA policy regarding active astronauts and their appearance in advertisements. "We appreciate the support shown by the President and a bipartisan Congress in space exploration."
On Wednesday, a petition was also created to have the video removed.
Over 6,900 have signed the petition as of Friday morning. The petition claims that the video politicizes the "accomplishments earned through many years of hard work by the NASA and SpaceX teams. "
"This campaign video, created on June 3rd, implies that the return of crewed launch on US soil is solely to the credit of his Administration. This implication is untrue; the NASA Commercial Crew Program has been around since the Obama Administration (started in 2011) in its current form, and its roots go back to the Bush Administration," the petition said.
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. Musk expressed his enthusiasm during the first launch attempt last Wednesday: "This is a dream come true for me and everyone else at SpaceX."
According to Business Insider, while the crew has many challenges ahead if everything goes well with the Demo-2 mission, "experts believe the mission could represent a bold new era for human spaceflight."
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