Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!leimkuhl From: leimkuhl@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Civilians in space (From NASA Activi - (nf) Message-ID: <6050@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 22:30:34 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6050 Posted: Tue Mar 6 22:30:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:15:09 EST Lines: 14 #R:statvax:-12600:uiuccsb:6800002:000:427 uiuccsb!leimkuhl Mar 6 20:13:00 1984 They really mean Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather or James Michener or ? The idea is that a great communicator would enter space as a better representative of the American people. Obviously NASA needs the PR. The research displaced by Dan Rather might be amply justified in the long run by the construction of another space shuttle or space station because of the public interest kindled by such a mission. Ben Leimkuhler