Re: Military service and the astronaut Corps

From: OM (om_at_our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:43:35 -0500

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:27:33 GMT, Dave Michelson <davem@ece.ubc.ca>
wrote:

>Derek Lyons wrote:
>>
>> The Pentagon 'decided' to obey the President, who ordered that the initial
>> group of astronauts come from the services. (The DoDs interest in space
>> comes somewhat later.)
>
>Sorry, the bracketed remark is incorrect. Both the USAF's X-15 and MISS (Main
>in Space Soonest) projects pre-date both the formation of NASA and the
>selection of the Original 7.

...Which is what I was going to post, but since Derek's being a twit
and has killfiled me simply because I was exercising my Constitutional
right to trash trolls under the 2nd Amendment, 33rd clause, I passed
on correcting his misconception. In addition, I argue that you should
also include Project Manhigh, even though orbit was nowhere near a
stated goal.

                                OM 

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