mike flugennock wrote:

I mean, if they'd really wanted to study the older, retired
early astronauts, couldn't they have just as easily flown a guy
who first flew in Gemini, commanded the first STS flight, and
who was supposedly still "getting his hours in"?

1. They didn't really "want to study the older, retired early
astronauts".

2. Young was not a US senator.

Jim Davis