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From: tom@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space muzak (Mission Status Report  #12)
Message-ID: <441@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 89 15:20:09 GMT
References: <18780@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <18780@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
< -In a reversal of traditional procedure, the crew of Discovery 
< -this morning "awoke" Mission Control with the theme song from the 
< -popular television show "Star Trek" followed by congratulatory 
< -comments from actor William Shatner who played Captain Kirk on 
< -the show.  Flight controllers followed Discovery's message by 
< -uplinking the fight songs from each crew members' college.
< 
< This sort of stuff is starting to bother me.  I am all in favor of doing fun
< things in space, along with useful things... but I'm not (willingly)
< contributing my tax dollars to pay for cutesy musical wakeup calls.

Oh, lighten up.  We have men and women who risk their necks providing 
invaluable research, and you're complaining about their wakeup music?

If we wanted to send up robots for near-earth work, we would.


-- 
Tom Albrecht