106: Be Gay, Do Crime (In Space)

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.You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel:http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon:http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further ReadingWendy Lawrence https://medium.com/the-vintage-space/gay-astronauts-a-final-frontier-9892d0987fa0 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202001130001.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain/biography/ https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/nasa-astronaut-bank-account-first-criminal-allegation-space/index.html 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/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/astronaut-space-investigation.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/08/25/nasa-astronaut-accused-of-hacking-bank-account-from-space/amp/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-49457912 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/space-crime-allegation-indictment.html https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain-space-crime-claim.html Space Law https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/space_law/ http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ECSL_-_European_Centre_for_Space_Law/About_space_law https://www.space.com/astronaut-anne-mcclain-refutes-space-crime-claim.html https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/index.html Follow the Sci Guys@notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth