[rec.arts.sf-lovers] Shuttle Down

ins_akaa@jhunix.JHU.EDU (Kenneth Arromdee) (10/18/88)

>One of the people I work with called NASA about one of the things in the
>book.  As Lee Correy stated they don't carry passports and at least then
>had no plans to start.  So they could be considered ilegal aliens :-)

I recall that eventually there was an update essay, either published in
Analog or in the paperback version of the book (I don't remember) which
said that the book caused quite a stir at NASA and that most of the events
in it could no longer happen today (i.e., the astronauts now carry passports).
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Kenneth Arromdee (....!jhunix!ins_akaa)