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another "first time" NASA boast is silly
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message ... The wording is ambiguous as to what they are claiming. Of course if they limit the definition to exactly what they have just accomplished, it will ALWAYS be 'first'. Isn't that the first rule of writing for a NASA PAO? Everything NASA does is a first in space; just make sure you word the claim correctly. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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another "first time" NASA boast is silly
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message ... Right -- as if Jack Lousma hadn't piloted the backpack maneuvering unit around the in side of Skylab in, oh, about August 1973. NASA either start getting some good out of its history office and stop making such ignorant 'first ever' claims, that only insult the achievements of past generations. International Space Station Status Report: SS06-024 Friday May 19, 5:52 pm ET WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In space this week, a satellite flew within a satellite. International Space Station Flight Engineer Jeff Williams "piloted" a unique spacecraft in three dimensions for the first time around the pressurized Destiny module. The demonstration tested the basics of formation flight and autonomous docking that could be useful in future multiple spacecraft formation flying. See, and I'm reading this simply as this is the first time that this particular test was done and that there will be future tests. Not that it was "first" in any significant manner. |
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