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From: gregc@cimage.com (Greg Cronau)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Nov 12 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.051844.3830@cimage.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 05:18:44 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.044442.2101@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Dec12.044442.2101@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>NASA appoints five-man team to assess recent orbiter turnaround problems
>and consider whether changes are needed.  The team is headed by "former
>astronaut" John Young.  ["Former"?  I thought he was still nominally an
>active astronaut.]

While John Young still has the official title of "Astronaut", I believe he has
removed himself from the active flight rotation schedule. I have not heard
why he made this decision.

gregc@cimage.com