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#26 2006-08-03 15:34:04

Josh Cryer
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Re: What IS an astronaut?

Yeah, Wikipedia considers the "tourists" astronauts, and frankly the origin of the word was apparently intended to mean "space traveller." Period.

Wikipedia is truth.


Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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#27 2006-08-03 16:41:55

idiom
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Re: What IS an astronaut?

Doesn't making a $20 - $35 Million dollar donation to exploration count as heroic?


Come on to the Future

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