Bruce Palmer wrote:
PAO: "Liftoff! We have liftoff of the Space Shuttle Whatever on a
12-day mission to blah blah blah."

That would be a 12-day *historic* mission. All missions are now
*historic*. Me thinks they kind of overuse that word.

It makes me gag everytime I hear it. They must actually pay someone to
dumb down the mission descriptions. I wonder how much NASA would save
by eliminating the Public Affairs Ofice and staff? Would there be any
significant downside to that?


Sam