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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Garn Assigned to Flight
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 11:04:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 11:04:28 1985
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> 
> "Motion sickness experiments"...
> 
> Does that mean the Senator is going to fly up there and barf?
> Can't they buy him some Dramamine and give him something more
> interesting to do?

According to a TV story on this (maybe it was on McNeil/Lehrer PBS news?),
using Garn as a guinea pig for the "space sickness" experiments is sort
of a back-door justification for his presence, even though everybody knows
they really are buying his continued support and friendliness in his
Congressional position. He seems happy with it (I'd be willing, too!).
Earlier reports on the subject indicated that he'd be sort of a general
flunky, doing tasks like cleaning and galley-work. ("OK, Senator, swab that
deck!") Maybe he'll still do this, too (clean up after his experiments...:-).

Will