T-38s as Astronaut aircraft: how much longer in service?

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Do you really want to fly in the shuttle with a pilot who hasn't had a
chance to put his or her life on the line in any performance aircraft
in the perhaps 8 years since he/she left the active military for NASA?

"How many drops have you done?"
"38...simulated."

- Lt. "Fresh Meat" Gorman, late of the United States Colonial Marines