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NASA Omits Yet Another Historic Resonance

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
May 3, 2023
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NASA Omits Yet Another Historic Resonance
Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic Jan Lipavský, left, presents NASA Administrator Bill Nelson with a reproduction of an original drawing made by a Czechoslovak boy named Petr Ginz of partial Jewish background who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, despite being of very young age, he had authored novels and made his own illustrations including this one depicting planet Earth seen from the moon, following the signing of the Artemis Accords, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington DC. The Czech Republic is the twenty fourth country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NASA’s Artemis program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Keith’s note: According to the NASA PAO press release “During a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington Wednesday, the Czech Republic became the 24th country to sign the Artemis Accords. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the agency and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský signed the Artemis Accords on behalf of the Czech Republic.” NASA PAO is too lazy to post the words and themes raised in these agreements. Below is an enhanced picture of a drawing by a boy in the Terezin Ghetto during World War II. The presentation says “This drawing was made by the talented jewuish boy Petr Ginz for Vedem (“We Lead”) magazine, which was published in the Teresin Ghetto in 1942-1944 by imprisoned Jewish biys. Most of them died in the gas chambers of the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau …” One of Ginz’s drawings was on board Space Shuttle Columbia when it was lost and later another drawing by Ginz went to the ISS. NASA did not bother to mention any of this in their press release. They took a picture but did not think it worth mentioning otherwise. You’d think that the NASA OIIR folks would be tuned into things like this. Guess not. Very odd. More below.

FYI regarding my story on PAO not mentioning the Holocaust angle to today’s thing with Czech Republic on Artemis Accords … Looks like the Czechs agree with my take:

Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic Jan Lipavský, left, presents NASA Administrator Bill Nelson with a reproduction of an original drawing made by a Czechoslovak boy named Petr Ginz of partial Jewish background who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, despite being of very young age, he had authored novels and made his own illustrations including this one depicting planet Earth seen from the moon, following the signing of the Artemis Accords, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington DC. The Czech Republic is the twenty fourth country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NASA’s Artemis program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

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