Anybody ever hear of this guy in the REAL space shuttle program?

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:44:10 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
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Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
Highly unlikely, as he's a British citizen and NASA only hires US
citizens...

Historically, that wasn't invariably true -- there was at least two cases
where NASA hired batches of non-US-citizens, and in one case some of them
were British -- but he's too young to have been part of those.

Quite right, I should have been more specific about that being more
recent. NASA and other government agencies also hired permanent
residents in the process of obtaining citizenship, sort of assuming
that they'd become citizens.

Reading the whole story, I think the guy is a fake.

Yep, seems likely. A doctor advising him to move to equatorial Africa?!?
Advising him to move to a warmer and more stable climate, okay, but you
can get that in Arizona or Hawaii or northern Australia, or even the
Mediterranean or South Africa or Sri Lanka, without the problems and
risks of central Africa.

I agree with you. The Mediterranean seems a lot more likely for
someone British; Costa del Sol has a lot of British people living
there. The advantages of the EU can't be overlooked.

Mary
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or

Jim Oberg wrote:
Anybody ever hear of this guy in the REAL space shuttle program?

'Millionaire' ex-space expert stuck in Kenya prison

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http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/ne...eid=1143950605 (has
bizarre photo of him there)



He looks British in the photo, and **** me drunk he is British. I think
he's had a few too many G&T's

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Julian Bordas
Rockets should land on their tails
as God and Heinlein intended

Julian Bordas wrote:

He looks British in the photo, and **** me drunk he is British. I
think he's had a few too many G&T's


He looks like Steamboy's granddad; all he needs is the monocle. :-)

Pat