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106: Be Gay, Do Crime (In Space)

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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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