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106: Be Gay, Do Crime (In Space)

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4.9632 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Wendy Lawrence may not have been the first lesbian in space, but she was at the centre of the first ever case of space fraud... or was she? There was a media frenzy around her alleged crime, but Wendy herself has a different story.

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References & Further Reading

Wendy Lawrence
  1. https://medium.com/the-vintage-space/gay-astronauts-a-final-frontier-9892d0987fa0
  2. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202001130001.jpg
  3. https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain/biography/
  4. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/nasa-astronaut-bank-account-first-criminal-allegation-space/index.html
  5. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/04/07/army-astronaut-accused-of-committing-crime-in-space-is-cleared-ex-wife-charged-with-making-false-statements/
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/astronaut-space-investigation.html
  7. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/08/25/nasa-astronaut-accused-of-hacking-bank-account-from-space/amp/
  8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-49457912
  9. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/space-crime-allegation-indictment.html
  10. https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain-space-crime-claim.html
Space Law
  1. https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html
  2. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/space_law/
  3. http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ECSL_-_European_Centre_for_Space_Law/About_space_law
  4. https://www.space.com/astronaut-anne-mcclain-refutes-space-crime-claim.html
  5. https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/index.html
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