gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis) (12/23/90)
Greetings and Saltations: From: rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) >A question inspired by these crew lists: Have there been any >civilians -- I mean people who have *no* military experience -- >as pilot-astronauts for the shuttle program? I vaguely remember >From what I have heard, one of the ?requirements? or REALLY GOOD THINGS TO HAVE is experience as a test pilot, and many hours at it also. Guess where is about the only place you can get experience like that?... I am not sure how hard and fast experience like this is needed, but it does give you alot of points when applying. From: jdishaw@cbrown.claremont.edu (Pom Ac Comp Staff) >bus, a solar panel, or possibly a thermocouple. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We always use a thermocouple to detect temperature electronically. How are you using it? Ken Hollis ProLine: gandalf@pro-canaveral Internet: gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-canaveral!gandalf
lhb6v@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Laura Hayes Burchard) (12/24/90)
Is there a complete set of astronaut mini-bios on-line anywhere? Or off-line and nearby? I want to look up a civilan astronaut (mission specialist, I think.) From NC, with one of those three-part southern names, like Jimmy Lee Brown or such. Probably James L. Brown to NASA :-). I ran into his aunt while on my way to Myrtle Beach this summer, and I'm curious. It was rather funny; I was standing by a roadside fruit stand miles from nowhere, forced to have a conversation with someone I had mentally dismissed as white trash while my dad looked for fresh corn. Then we got on the subject of families and Texas and she mentioned that her nephew was down there training as an astronaut. So much for arrogance. The rest of the family was pretty interesting, too. -- Laura Burchard lhb6v@virginia.edu If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. -- Rob Stampfli