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From: chiaravi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #207
Summary: Here is the information you requested
Keywords: non-sexist terms for having people onboard
Message-ID: <3067@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 89 05:43:21 GMT
References: <space-request+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> <Added.8XrfC6y00Ui3MefU83@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: chiaravi@silver.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Organization: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <Added.8XrfC6y00Ui3MefU83@andrew.cmu.edu> HOWGREJ@YALEVM.BITNET
(Greg Howard) writes:
|   Just out of curiousity, and to keep from offending anyone, is there a
|non-sexist term for a "manned" mission?  Here they've taken to calling
|first-year students "freshpersons", but a "personned" mission just doesn't
|sound right.  Any thoughts?

	"Crewed" and "staffed" are perfectly acceptable, and the latter of
these even sounds good.

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