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n July, published an essay by science-fiction writer Mary Robinette Kowal in which she called out the gender bias of space programmes, including the historic 1969 Moon Mission, outlining how they were created around ‘male bodies’. Some readers responded saying that the reason women had not been sent into space was because there was no technology for them to urinate

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