Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA announces crew members for future space shuttle flights (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.082614.29958@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec20.003741.23964@news.arc.nasa.gov> <rose.661720444@beowulf>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 08:26:14 GMT

In article <rose.661720444@beowulf> rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) writes:
>A question inspired by these crew lists:  Have there been any
>civilians -- I mean people who have *no* military experience --
>as pilot-astronauts for the shuttle program? ...

To date, no.  The pilot-astronaut qualifications basically say "lots of
fast-jet pilot-in-command time", which is awfully hard to get without
a military flying career.  There are a few civilian fast-jet test pilots --
e.g., Neil Armstrong was a civilian -- but they invariably learned to fly
in the military.
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