[ShadowAce]

That is exactly how Reagan convinced Gorbechev about capitalism--Gorbachev visited NASA to see our space program, and afterwards wanted to see what a comon supermarket looked like.

That visit opened his eyes and convinced him that communism was not the best system after all--and that stop wasn't even on the itinerary or scripted.

[June2]

I think that was Yeltsin, not Gorbechev that visited JSC and then went to a supermarket.