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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Galileo Astronauts Honored at JPL
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.023948.12752@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2289@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <24627@cup.portal.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 89 02:39:48 GMT

In article <24627@cup.portal.com> fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming) writes:
>>Time was then set aside for the
>>JPL employees to chat with the astronauts and to get their autographs.
>... 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...

As has been pointed out several times of late:  space is more than
just space science.  It's not their dedication to space science that
makes them cluster around astronauts enthusiastically.
-- 
Mars can wait:  we've barely   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
started exploring the Moon.    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu