Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA Selection
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.225616.396@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <0ZuAFgK00Uh_M28MJm@andrew.cmu.edu> <1990Feb26.164741.23717@utzoo.uucp> <1990Feb26.205124.29029@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 22:56:16 GMT

In article <1990Feb26.205124.29029@utzoo.uucp> kcarroll@utzoo.uucp (Kieran A. Carroll) writes:
>> A. We will assume you mean a NASA astronaut, since it's probably impossible
>>         for a Westerner to get into the Soviet program...
>
>Looks like this version needs updating, Henry, what with the (privately-
>sponsored!) British astronaut who's to go up to Mir within the year...

Uh-uh, Kieran, the Juno astronaut is *not* getting into the Soviet program.
He/she is a *British* astronaut going up as a passenger on a Soviet flight.
As such, my comments on other nations' astronaut programs apply:  flight
opportunities are few and far between, so the odds are much worse than
in the US program.
-- 
"The N in NFS stands for Not, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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