Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!unix!snmp.sri.com!larson
From: larson@snmp.sri.com (Alan Larson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 10/05/90 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <17046@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 23:31:24 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.024332.20867@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park
Lines: 15

In article <1990Oct9.024332.20867@news.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:

>               All but Commander Richards flew in T-38 aircraft this  morn-
>          ing  as  part  of  pre-launch activities.  The STS-41 five-member
>          flight crew will be briefed this morning on  the  status  of  the
>          vehicle, payload and weather.

  As I understand it, the shuttle crew uses T-38's as their normal method
of getting around the country.  (I would appreciate any expansion of detail
on this if availiable.)

  How do the mission specialists get around?  Are they all rated to fly
T-38's?  I thought they didn't even have to all be pilots.

	Alan