Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: back-up crews Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 17:35:29 GMT References: <8025@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Apr10.061620.18949@santra.uucp> <1991Apr10.144245.15969@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 30 In-reply-to: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu's message of 10 Apr 91 14:42:45 GMT In article <1991Apr10.144245.15969@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop) writes: [In reference to quarantining Shuttle crews] >I seem to recall several instances of Shuttle crews going back to Houston to >get in an extra couple of days of sims after scrubs; do they somehow keep them >quarantined during this time? I don't think they really quarantine them, in the sense of locking them up in little rooms and not allowing anyone near them who isn't in full scrubs. It's more informal, where they just avoid sick people. The NASA people who come in contact with the astronauts just before a mission will avoid them if they feel contagious. Even back in the Apollo days, when they got more excited about it, it wasn't much of a quarantine. They wouldn't let Pres. Nixon near Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins, supposedly because of the quarantine, but NASA employees were in and out with impunity. My husband, a NASA aero engineer, was in the crew quarters during that time, a guest of Fred Haise. No one cared about his health, even when he sat around with the Apollo 11 crew BSing a couple of days before the launch. (Armstrong and Haise were Dryden test pilots before they became astronauts and he'd known them then.) -- 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