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Old February 7th 09, 11:58 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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Default "The Onion" has fun with the Shuttle

As usual:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news...sists_on_every

"The insufferable perfectionist's fixation goes beyond ship maintenance
and safety, however. In the past six months, Wilkins has totally
smothered Discovery astronauts, forcing them to complete endless
navigation simulations, practice sea survival techniques despite the
lack of water in space, and train for all kinds of hypothetical
emergency evacuations, the vast majority of which will never even happen."

One of the funniest and most subtle things they've ever written, IMHO. :-D

Pat
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Old February 7th 09, 09:50 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Jonathan
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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As usual:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news...sists_on_every

"The insufferable perfectionist's fixation goes beyond ship maintenance and
safety, however. In the past six months, Wilkins has totally smothered
Discovery astronauts, forcing them to complete endless navigation simulations,
practice sea survival techniques despite the lack of water in space, and train
for all kinds of hypothetical emergency evacuations, the vast majority of
which will never even happen."

One of the funniest and most subtle things they've ever written, IMHO. :-D


I like this line...


"He's making the flight engineers review the ship for two days?
I can see it from here. It's fine,"




Pat



 




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