Editing Space exploration (section)

==== Human representation and participation ====
{{See also|Space law}}

Participation and representation of humanity in space is an issue ever since the first phase of space exploration.<ref name="Durrani"/> Some rights of non-spacefaring countries have been mostly secured through international [[space law]], declaring space the "[[Common heritage of mankind|province of all mankind]]", understanding [[spaceflight]] as its resource, though sharing of space for all humanity is still criticized as [[imperialism|imperialist]] and lacking.<ref name="Durrani">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/apollo-space-lunar-rockets-colonialism/ |title=Is Spaceflight Colonialism? |magazine=The Nation|first=Haris |last=Durrani |access-date=2 October 2020 |date=19 July 2019}}</ref> Additionally to international inclusion, the inclusion of women and [[people of colour]] has also been lacking. To reach a more inclusive spaceflight, some organizations like the ''Justspace Alliance''<ref name="Durrani"/> and [[IAU]] featured ''Inclusive Astronomy''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.inclusiveastronomy.org/ |title=Website of the IAU100 ''Inclusive Astronomy'' project |access-date=8 January 2022 |archive-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222220447/https://www.inclusiveastronomy.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> have been formed in recent years.

=====Women=====
{{Main|Women in space}}
The first woman to go to space was [[Valentina Tereshkova]]. She flew in 1963 but it was not until the 1980s that another woman entered space again. All astronauts were required to be military test pilots at the time and women were not able to join this career. This is one reason for the delay in allowing women to join space crews.<ref>Healey, Devlin. (2018). There are no bras in space: how spaceflight adapted to women and how women adapt to spaceflight. ''Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, 19(3),'' 593-618. </ref> After the rule changed, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] became the second woman to go to space, she was also from the [[Soviet Union]]. [[Sally Ride]] became the next woman in space and the first woman to fly to space through the United States program.

Since then, eleven other countries have allowed women astronauts. The first all-female space walk occurred in 2018, including [[Christina Koch]] and [[Jessica Meir]]. They had both previously participated in space walks with NASA. The first woman to go to the Moon is planned for 2026.

Despite these developments, women are underrepresented among astronauts and especially cosmonauts. Issues that block potential applicants from the programs, and limit the space missions they are able to go on, include:
* agencies limiting women to half as much time in space than men, arguing that there may be unresearched additional risks for cancer.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.space.com/22252-women-astronauts-radiation-risk.html | title = Female Astronauts Face Discrimination from Space Radiation Concerns, Astronauts Say | first = Miriam | last = Kramer | date = 27 August 2013 | access-date = 7 January 2017 | work = Space.com | publisher = Purch}}</ref>
* a lack of space suits sized appropriately for female astronauts.<ref name="clothing">{{cite magazine |last=Sokolowski |first=Susan L.|title= Female astronauts: How performance products like space suits and bras are designed to pave the way for women's accomplishments|url=https://theconversation.com/female-astronauts-how-performance-products-like-space-suits-and-bras-are-designed-to-pave-the-way-for-womens-accomplishments-114346 |date=5 April 2019 | magazine =The Conversation |access-date=10 May 2020 }}</ref>