Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: NASA announces crew members for future space shuttle flights (Forwarded) Message-ID: <1990Dec28.082614.29958@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Dec20.003741.23964@news.arc.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 08:26:14 GMT In article rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) writes: >A question inspired by these crew lists: Have there been any >civilians -- I mean people who have *no* military experience -- >as pilot-astronauts for the shuttle program? ... To date, no. The pilot-astronaut qualifications basically say "lots of fast-jet pilot-in-command time", which is awfully hard to get without a military flying career. There are a few civilian fast-jet test pilots -- e.g., Neil Armstrong was a civilian -- but they invariably learned to fly in the military. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry