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From: fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL
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Date: 1 Dec 89 14:06:07 GMT
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>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.
 
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