John Hirasaki is an American mechanical engineer who worked for the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the Apollo 11 mission, the first crewed mission to the Moon. In 1969 he – along with Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and William Carpentier – became one of the first five known humans to view lunar rocks inside Earth's atmosphere. Wikipedia
“… essentially, NASA was quite colorblind. If you could do the job, that was what mattered.”
[NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Edited Oral History Transcript:John K. Hirasaki, https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/HirasakiJK/HirasakiJK_3-6-09.htm, June 2, 2018, March 6, 2009, nasa.gov]
