Xref: utzoo sci.space:28901 sci.space.shuttle:7475 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: News from Spaceflight Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 15:46:37 GMT References: <1991Apr5.080709.6477@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 26 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 5 Apr 91 08:07:09 GMT In article <1991Apr5.080709.6477@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: March issue of Spaceflight mentions that astronaut William F. Fisher has left NASA to return to medical practice. No big surprise, on thinking about it: he was co-chair of the group that reported the bad news about EVA requirements for Fred, which probably killed his chances of future flight assignments. I always thought he just joined up to keep up with his wife, Anna. She was originally picked as a Mission Specialist and he moved to Houston with her and worked as an emergency room physician (there's probably a more dramatic phrase, like trauma specialist). He was picked up as a mission specialist on the next round, some time later. I also wondered if the other astronauts liked having a pair of MDs on _their_ side, not management's. Military flight surgeons struggle with this conflict of interest, for example, and usually end up more on the pilot's side. I believe that corporate flight surgeons tend to stay in the management camp better. (Maybe it's who's got the best back/right seats?) -- 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