pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) (03/31/89)
I just heard on the radio that you can now buy advertising space on Mir (a couple of years ago I would have assumed it was an April Fool's joke). You can buy a patch on a cosmonaut's spacesuit, or a 2-lb cargo that you can proclaim "has flown in space", or an ad on the Mir hull, or a billboard at the Baikonur launch pad. It boggles the mind. I wonder if they'll consider inserting promos for sponsors in the voice links? "Comrade, the Bulova time is 00:30 Zulu..." Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)