Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: married astronauts to fly together? Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 05:30:53 GMT References: <1991Feb1.223556.2313@infonode.ingr.com> <1991Feb4.235309.18013@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 27 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 4 Feb 91 23:53:09 GMT In article <1991Feb4.235309.18013@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: In article <1991Feb1.223556.2313@infonode.ingr.com> drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude) writes: >>Oh really? That means NASA has deliberately kept married astronauts from >>being on the same flight before, right? Do you have any objective >>source for this or are you just blowing some weird biased smoke out of >>your own brain? No, he's making his remarks based on information and the fact that no married couples have ever flown together. >NASA won't discuss the subject in public at all. However, it is a fact >that no married couple has ever flown together, and sources I semi-trust >tell me that it is deliberate. I don't know who Henry's sources are, but I can tell you that my sources are astronauts. Yes, indeed, NASA deliberately does not schedule married couples to fly together. I've always assumed that it's because nobody wants to write the flight report or answer questions at the post-flight debriefings. :-) -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot