Re: Lost in nostalgia

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid:
> What's really entertaining is listening to the PR folks trying to come up
> with a scientific explanation for the choice.

Tom:
> >    NASA CONFIRMS SEN. JOHN GLENN TO GO INTO SPACE AS PAYLOAD SPECIALIST.
> >
> > Couldn't have anything to do with nostalgia, could it? What does it say
> > about the public relations of the space program -- until now the epitome of
> > futurism -- when it begins to recycle its relics?

Nah, I'm just cynical enough to see method even in this apparent madness:
18 months hence a SoCal-Detroit consortium will market a space coupe for
the better-heeled geriatric crowd.  "The Millennium: a Jupiter of value
at an asteroid price.  An out-of-this-world investment for sensible folks
who barf at the very mention of the stock market!"

                                                                  valis