TIL a Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the CSA and was told, "That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sexism-in-space



Submitted April 04, 2015 at 03:41AM by fuckThatAndroid http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31cye2/til_a_canadian_female_astronaut_was_sexually/