{"id":128243,"date":"2015-10-06T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/looking-for-a-gender-neutral-unmanned-alternative-for-space-flight.html"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:31:27","slug":"looking-for-a-gender-neutral-unmanned-alternative-for-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/looking-for-a-gender-neutral-unmanned-alternative-for-space-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a gender-neutral "unmanned" alternative for space flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we've culturally decided that "man" no longer serves as a contemporary synonym for "humanity," the term "unmanned" almost certainly needs to be retired — but apparently that's kind of complicated.<\/p>\n

The best, most accurate alternative I see from this article is "uncrewed," which is precise, non-gendered, and similar enough to "unmanned" to sound correct. The problem is that NASA won't use it because it "isn't in the dictionary."<\/p>\n

Which is an odd restriction for an agency dedicated to exploring the unknown, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

Hey, NASA, to paraphrase another aspirational source, "If you use it, the dictionaries will come." Words don't get put into the dictionary through a permission process. They get put in because they are being used. Use "uncrewed" and the dictionaries will pick it up quickly. Problem solved.<\/p>\n

(I do fully agree with +<\/span>J. Steven York<\/a><\/span> that we should avoid "unstaffed".)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFinding new language for space missions that fly without humans<\/a><\/span>
\nHistorically, human spaceflight was described using the words\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Since we've culturally decided that "man" no longer serves as a contemporary synonym for "humanity," the term "unmanned" almost certainly needs to be retired — but apparently that's kind of complicated. The best, most accurate alternative I see from this article is "uncrewed," which is precise, non-gendered, and similar enough to "unmanned" to sound correct. … Continue reading “Looking for a gender-neutral "unmanned" alternative for space flight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82,348,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space","category-women","category-writing-and-language","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/go-voyager-go.html","url_meta":{"origin":128243,"position":0},"title":"Go, Voyager, Go","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Dec-12 10:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The interesting stuff that Voyager 1 continues to turn up ... continues to be interesting. 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