Posted on 08/07/2007 8:22:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Barbara Morgan smiles as she is introduced at a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in this July 18, 2007 file photo. Seven astronauts are assigned to Wednesday's planned launch of Endeavour, but the spotlight is on Morgan, who was Christa McAuliffe's backup for Challenger's doomed mission in 1986. (AP Photo/John Raoux, FILE)
This photo provided by the White House shows first lady Laura Bush calling astronaut and former teacher Barbara Morgan, who will travel to space for the first time, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007, from the private residence of the White House in Washington. Mrs. Bush expressed congratulations from 'one schoolteacher to another' and noted that she and the President appreciate Ms. Morgan's commitment to America's space program, to teaching, and to students. Ms. Morgan is a mission specialist for the flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch August 8, 2007. AP Photo/White House, Shealah Craighead)
I don't think so.
mutatis mutandis
Why didnt NASA pick a new younger astronaut?
That’s not what they said.
Like maybe one who wears diapers?
Exquisite!
They didn’t say it, but it’s how you have to take it.
She has to be in her mid forties if she practiced with McAlluiffe. The Challanger disaster was over twenty years ago.
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The article says she’s fifty-five.
In addition, I (ahem) don’t think that mid-forties is all that old...
Ouch!
“Why didnt NASA pick a new younger astronaut?”
Why pick a younger one?
She’s been training for the past decade according to the article and the NASA folk cleared her. I’m pretty sure she’s up to snuff. Also, it’s good that she’s being given this opportunity.
In addition, I (ahem) don’t think that mid-forties is all that old...
In philosophy professors...No.
In astronauts...yes.
Has anyone noticed the makeup of the crew of STS-118 compared to STS-51L? On both flights there were six whites, one black(four white men, two white women, one black man). Also, both Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan did and will occupy the center seat on the shuttle mid-deck. And, as someone has pointed out, the Endeavour was built to replace the Challenger. Ironic, isn’t it?
That’s not old. She could pound the #$%^ out of most half her age.
Not guilty!
I'm getting old.
;-)
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