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All female Russian space crew asked about not being around men and having no make up

The scientists involved had some fairly curt responses for the journalists involved.

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RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED an all-female test for a potential mission to the moon.

A crew of six women, aged between between 24 and 35, are being sent on an eight-day experiment to simulate conditions for a potential mission to take place in 2029.

However, rather than focus on the scientific gravity of the mission, a press conference earlier today saw the scientists quizzed on how they would cope without men and makeup.

According to Phys.org, when asked how they would cope without men, the group responded, “We consider the future of space as belonging equally to men and women and unfortunately we need to catch up a bit after a period when unfortunately there haven’t been too many women in space.”

Scientist Anna Kussmaul said, “We are here to do our job and we don’t have time to think about men.”

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Participant Anna Kussmaul hit back with, “We are doing work. When you’re doing your work, you don’t think about men and women.”

Earlier this week the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that the craft that will be used for its 2029 mission to the moon is currently under construction.

Russia sent the first woman into space – with cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova embarking on a mission in 1963.

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    Oct 29th 2014, 11:38 AM

    Fair play to him. Nice to see a young man trying to engage with the people. They usually only do this once every 5 years to get elected. And when does being an LGBT activist make you gay. I would also like to see rights for LGBT community and am married with 2 kids. Fair play to him

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    Oct 29th 2014, 11:35 AM

    Question 1: why does a suburban sprawl on the outskirts of a relatively small city require a separate mayor?
    Question 2: expenses are bleedin’ deadly right?
    Question 3: I’m sorry, and you are?

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    Oct 29th 2014, 4:58 PM

    South Dublin County has the fourth highest population for a council area in the country. Do you believe we deserve less representation for living close to a large city?

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    Oct 29th 2014, 6:13 PM

    To be honest, I think a city of under 1.5m people having four separate mayors & councils is utterly ridiculous. Even if we have to retain the four separate councils, there should be one mayor over them all. There are ways to do this even if not the perfectly logical suggestion for a directly elected mayor which was rejected by Fingal council.
    If you look at our national population you really have to wonder about the amount of political representation we currently enjoy. We’re about the size of greater Manchester who have a 12 person council governing them, and then a 2 house national parliament above that, and a queen. We have councils for each county/city (and we define cities in pretty questionable ways), 2 Houses of Parliament and a president, yet when the fat was being trimmed only town councils came in to question. Do we benefit from this excessive representation, or is it a costly hindrance to actually getting things done?

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    Oct 30th 2014, 9:30 AM

    London has a population of 8.3 million. It has 33 local authorities all with their own mayor. It also has a London assembly as well as the office of the Mayor of London. And 4 is too much?

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    Oct 29th 2014, 1:32 PM

    Ask him why he joined SF and how he reconciled his liberal agenda with their kangaroo courts, murder and rape?

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    Oct 29th 2014, 11:39 AM

    Just reply on your Facebook and Twitter. No need to move away from the two

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    Oct 29th 2014, 12:07 PM

    Tumblr is just as good,I’ve lost countless searching throughuser created content, most of it is brilliant,

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    Oct 29th 2014, 12:13 PM

    Tumblr allows you to ask questions anonymously, maybe some people don’t feel comfortable asking publicly via Twitter or Facebook.

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    Oct 29th 2014, 5:30 PM

    Because neither Facebook nor Twitter can be anonymous?

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    Oct 29th 2014, 7:42 PM

    By the way well done Mayor

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    Oct 29th 2014, 12:02 PM

    If he thinks engaging with young people and listening to what people want is the right way for politicians and politics to move forward in this country then he’s in the wrong place altogether. Seems to me that there’s nothing wrong with the “promise earth moon and stars to people to get elected, ignore and deprive systems that need the most help when you do (health, & education for example) then seek out every possible way to impose even more taxes on the mist taxed population in Europe”. Just my opinion tho.

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    Oct 29th 2014, 12:11 PM

    Surprised he doesn’t do a Reddit AMA!

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    Oct 29th 2014, 7:41 PM

    Tom only thing you can do is throw dirt..why not ask him yourself if you are genuinely interested though I fear you would not be willing to listen so closed is your mind

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