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Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL

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From: Charles Hannum
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 22:12
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In article <24627@cup.portal.com>, fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming)
says:
>
>>Time was then set aside for the
>>JPL employees to chat with the astronauts and to get their autographs.
>
>...Just think about this sentence for a second...
>
>I'm not a basher of the individual astronauts; I'd love to be one.
>But the thought of people at JPL, the *real* space-science heroes
>of the last couple of decades, clustering around a bunch of
>Right-Stuffers like teenage groupies...
>
>I dunno.  Maybe I'm getting cranky in my old age.  Let it pass.

If you'd been waiting (how many?) years to get your baby out into space,
you'd think the astronauts were God, too.

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From: CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL
Message-ID: <89336.171216CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 2 Dec 89 22:12:16 GMT
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