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From: jimcat@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
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Subject: Re: married astronauts to fly together?
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Date: 1 Feb 91 22:10:00 GMT
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In article <1991Feb1.161748.28620@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <11591@ucrmath.ucr.edu> koszelak@ucrmath.ucr.edu (stan koszelak) writes:
>>...  There are other married astronaut
>>couples, it's just that none of them have ever flown together
>>before.  I hope that Headquarters doesn't bother them about it,
>>but I can just imagine one of their psychiatrists having some
>>negative comment about it.
>
>A much more likely source of trouble than the psychiatrists is management
>worried about the reaction from the religious Right.  It is not an accident
>that none of the married couples has ever flown together.
 
 I don't understand this. I thought the religious right respected marriage
as a sacred institution. I'd think they'd be more worried about unmarried
couples going up in space. After all, there's a commandment that says,
"Thou shalt not commit adultery"; as far as I know there's nothing in the
Bible that says "Thou shalt not be fruitful and multiply in orbit".
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