From NASA to Blue Origin, the cutting-edge space industry has old problems: Sexism and harassment

The space industry, a cutting-edge field rife with romanticized goals of exploration, has an ancient problem: sexism and harassment.

Organizations from private spaceflight companies to public agencies like NASA have been the subject of behavior accusations in recent months that range from the inappropriate to potentially criminal. 

A group of former and current Blue Origin employees published an essay last month calling out sexism at Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company. Dozens have joined a Facebook group dedicated to offering support in dealing with inappropriate behavior on the job, leading some to make their stories public. NASA even changed its code of conduct for members of the media, potentially giving officials more leeway in enforcing bans of people caught behaving badly.