From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!orion!lime!eds Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: Curious Anomaly (Jr. astros) Article-I.D.: lime.312 Posted: Mon Jan 3 10:18:59 1983 Received: Tue Jan 4 02:03:04 1983 About the preponerance of "Jr.'s" in the astronaut ranks... My high school chemistry teacher was a personal friend of one of the leading candidates for the first group of astronauts. This guy's qualifications were super, but he was rejected. NASA told him that the only reason was that he was the middle child in his family. It seems that at first, NASA only accepted first-born sons as astronauts! Ed Schulz, American Bell, Holmdel, NJ.