“… essentially, NASA was quite colorblind. If you could do the job, that was what mattered.”

— John Hirasaki

[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]

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