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Homer Hickham gave an interesting insight...
He was on one of the news channels and basically implied that the engineers
were probably happy to see one of the astronauts fall of their pedestal. He even posts to usenet, hanging out in rec.sport.footable.college, and occassionally gives insight on NASA/shuttle. (Leave the dude alone. He seems a little bitter with NASA and HATES the space shuttle. I just absorb whatever he throws out. His thoughts on Helium-3 are pretty cool though.) |
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Homer Hickam gave an interesting insight...
Homer Hickam, opinion on Usenet and the LA Times...
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail ....Does it make sense to have this many overachievers all walking on eggs, vying for such a limited number of slots? Only in a dysfunctional bureaucracy like NASA's astronaut office, which keeps hiring more astronauts than it needs. As a training manager, I was aware that many astronauts felt as if they were powerless, stressed-out peons within their own organization. I observed their daily competition with one another to get a seat into space. In many cases, this trial by fire changed enthusiastic young astronauts into bureaucratic combatants with warped personalities and shaken confidence. For a long time, I also have been aware of the corrosive resentment many NASA engineers and scientists feel toward the astronauts. The astronauts have a sense of entitlement, and what they want, they get, or so it seems. For instance, I was in a meeting once in which an astronaut who only had a few years of NASA experience constantly interrupted and belittled a 20-year space engineering veteran. That's the kind of thing that fuels discontent. My suggestion... Good suggestion Homer, but my list would have been little broader than scientist and engineers. -- Craig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @ -- Esaz wrote: He was on one of the news channels and basically implied that the engineers were probably happy to see one of the astronauts fall of their pedestal. He even posts to usenet, hanging out in rec.sport.footable.college, and occassionally gives insight on NASA/shuttle. (Leave the dude alone. He seems a little bitter with NASA and HATES the space shuttle. I just absorb whatever he throws out. His thoughts on Helium-3 are pretty cool though.) |
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Homer Hickam gave an interesting insight...
My suggestion... Good suggestion Homer, but my list would have been little broader than scientist and engineers. -- Craig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @ -- Well... I am waiting for the day when Mike Griffin wakes up one morning and says "You know what would be a great idea? We should send an author into space! I have it! Homer Hickam!" I'd respond - Sure thing. But would it hurt your feelings if I went aboard a Soyuz? H3 http://www.homerhickam.com |
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