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From: alb@brunix.UUCP (Adam Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: women shuttle crew members/space sickness
Message-ID: <10028@brunix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 10:06:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 10:06:50 1984
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The reason the women on board the shuttle were on board was
because they were the right people for the job that they had
to do.  They were not on board so NASA could say it is an
equal opportunity employer, and I'm sure they would take offense
if you suggested they were.  Simply put, they were there because
they were needed.  Just because it may ''seem only fair'' that
NASA send up an all-women crew, that is not the way to run a
space shuttle mission.  The shuttle has a purpose, be it to
launch satellite, carry on research, etc., and its crew is
picked so that it can best carry out that purpose.