From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 22:53:21 MST
> > [Spike Jones] irritated Zub at a conference once merely by suggesting that
> candidate
> > Mars astronauts should be chosen by their size. Please, why do people find
> > this notion so offputting? {8^D spike
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> because mars missions are expensive things that require a lot of PR to
> keep funded. Putting attractive, fit, large men and women in front of
> the camera goes a long way toward justifying the budgeting. ...
Zubrin has a saying for this: No Buck Rogers, no bucks.
Does anyone remember Jeanne Yeager? She was a copilot
on the first airplane to fly around the world without refueling. A prime
example of what I was talking about. Jeanne is a tiny one. Actually
the Mercury astronauts were all under 69 inches in height, 1.75 meters.
I think Ill stop pushing my luck on this before I get violently kookified.
{8^D spike
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