Cybertraps for Educators Digest

Frederick Lane ~ 13 March 2023

This C4E Digest is 2,023 words, or approximately a 8.5-minute read.

The start of week two here in Ghana. The pace of activity is picking up this week, with visits to the Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, some schools, and a university.

Astronaut/Teacher Christa McAuliffe (center) and Crew Mates Training on NASA's KSC-135 ("The Vomit Comet"), November 20, 1995 [Credit: NASA]

🚀 Above the Fold: "Ars Longa, Vita Brevis, Twitter Aeternum"

Two months before her death on the Challenger shuttle, a NASA photographer took a charming photo of Concord, NH teacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe and four of her crewmates as they experienced brief moments of weightlessness on NASA's so-called "Vomit Comet."

For the purposes of this particular news summary, one detail is important: note that all of the trainees are wearing exactly the same NASA jumpsuit. Sure, you can make a guess at each person's sex, but the clothing is purposely (and pragmatically) androgynous. You'd have to do a deep dive into pulp sci-fi to find mini-skirted or dress-wearing space travelers. And of course, once NASA astronauts put on their full gear, all external clues of sex or gender expression disappear.