"Andrew Lotosky" wrote in news:1123734147.508045.63360
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:


Burnham Treezdown wrote:
On 10 Aug 2005 19:35:50 -0700, "Andrew Lotosky"
wrote:


Mark Polansky, originally assigned as pilot for STS 117 was bumped up
to command STS 116 when its original commander, Terry Wilcutt was moved
into a management position. He's so far only flown in STS 98.


Is it safe to assume that a promotion to management likely spells the
end of an astronaut's flying career? What if he doesn't want to go?
After all the years of hard training to be a shuttle astronaut, can
one say "no" to a boot up the ladder and still have a job?

Hardly.

Frank Culbertson was manager of the Shuttle-Mir program and later got
assigned to Command the third ISS Expedition. And there are more
examples out there that escape me at the moment.

Jim Halsell returned from a management job for the command of STS-120.


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