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The Artemis era and near-gender-parity astronaut recruitment signal structural expansion of the space economy's talent base, which over years lowers human-capital constraints on launch cadence and satellite deployment, indirectly supporting the data/connectivity infrastructure that crypto and DePIN projects rely on.

An ESA chemical propulsion engineer discusses the history and current state of gender equality in space exploration, from the Mercury 13 to NASA's Artemis programme.

ESA Engineer Puts Gender Equality in Spaceflight Back on the Agenda, From Mercury 13 to Artemis

The Mercury 13's exclusion from spaceflight mirrors Bitcoin's institutional adoption gap, with similar second-order effects on market structure and liquidity.