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From: marla%lucerne@Sun.COM (Marla Parker)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 03/11/89 PM (Forwarded)
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Date: 16 Mar 89 02:34:28 GMT
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In article <3756@mipos3.intel.com> dbraun@cadavr.UUCP (Doug Braun ~) writes:
>
>Do all the astronauts, including mission specialists, actually fly the T-38s,
>or do the non-pilots just get a ride?
>

My sister works for NASA in a group that trains the astronauts in 
I'm not sure what.  She and 4 other people were the team assigned to the
Discovery crew, so they got to see them off last week.  One of the
astronauts pointed out that since they all had their "PC badges"
(Personal Contact, meaning they could get within 6' of the astronauts, I think 
she said?) they could go out with them to look at and in the T-38s, which they 
all did.

Then the astronauts and one other person climbed into the 3 jets and 
flew off.  I think she said only three of the astronauts are pilots and
they flew the jets, with the other 2 astronauts and some other person
as the 3 passengers.


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