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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA Bureaucracy - it's for the birds
Keywords: astronaut qualifications
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Date: 24 Jan 89 18:39:46 GMT
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In article <1896@egvideo.uucp> timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) writes:
|The POINT wasn't so much that the original author was raising kids, BUT that
|NASA was arbitrarily turning down applicants with expereience because they 
|didn't have a "BS" + 3 years, which is -utterly- ridiculos.

If she wanted to be an astronaut, she should have worked on a BS
instead of having kids. With all the highly qualified people who
really want to be an astronaut, why should NASA hire anyone who thinks
anything (such as kids) is more important than being an astronaut? 

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