Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Civilians in space (From NASA Activities) Message-ID: <794@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 18:10:07 EST Article-I.D.: ulysses.794 Posted: Mon Mar 5 18:10:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 03:27:16 EST References: <919@inuxc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 6 Current thinking is to send "communicators" -- artists, poets, writers, reporters, photographers, etc. The idea is that (most) astronauts are not trained (and don't have the time) to properly communicate the experience to the rest of us. Wasted space? Think of it as public relations. Remem- ber -- you and I may be convinced that low Earth orbit is a nice place to visit (but not to live; L5 is better....), but most of the public isn't.