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Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #207
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Date: 28 Jan 89 00:55:00 GMT
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From HOWGREJ@YALEVM.BITNET (Greg Howard):
   
> 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?

The Planetary Society went through this silliness a few years back.  Louis
Friedman suggested it in the March 1985 issue of the _The_Planetary_Report_.
The society was soon swamped with suggestions.  The most popular response
was "staffed."  Other ideas for mission adjectives included:

	accompanied			humanned	
	ambisextrous		 	hybrid	
	animated			inhabited
	anthropic			live
	attended			missionary
	beset				organic
	bionic				peopled
	corporeal			piloted
	creatured			prosopal
	droogied			   (Greek for "personned")
	   (from Russian word		starred
	    for "friend")		tended
	hominized			wamo
					   (woman or man operated)
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