Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA Selection
Message-ID: <1990Feb27.034709.8813@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <0ZuAFgK00Uh_M28MJm@andrew.cmu.edu> <1990Feb26.164741.23717@utzoo.uucp> <5089.25e95382@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 03:47:09 GMT

In article <5089.25e95382@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4223_5403@uwovax.uwo.ca (Ket M'thau) writes:
>> 	If you aren't a US citizen, become one; that is a must.  After that,
>
>...then how did Marc Garneau get to go up?  I doubt he'd have been billed as
>"Canada's first astronaut" had he been an American citizen.

He belongs to the miniscule Canadian astronaut corps.  See the clause about
that in my posting, to wit:

	... the other nations
	have so few astronauts (and fly even fewer) that you're better off
	hoping to win a lottery...

One or two other foreign nationals have flown on the US shuttle.  Same
situation.
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