Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA Selection
Message-ID: <1990Mar2.165053.345@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Feb26.164741.23717@utzoo.uucp> <8551@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 16:50:53 GMT

In article <8551@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> colin@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (colin.alan.warwick,ho,) writes:
>>A. We will assume you mean a NASA astronaut, since it's probably impossible
>>	for a Westerner to get into the Soviet program...
>
>Two Britons were recently selected for the Soviet Juno Project.

Which is a British program.  Those two Britons are the British astronaut
corps at the moment.  One of them will get to fly, once, as a *passenger*
on a Soviet flight.  They have not gotten into the Soviet cosmonaut corps,
and never will.
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