"That's one small step for a man..."
...and one giant step backwards for womankind. NASA has bounced Lisa Nowak back to the Navy, not quite knowing what to do about hormone-crazed astronauts with criminal charges pending. I'm really unimpressed with those criminal charges myself, but they seem to be NASA's chief basis for booting her. At least I hope so; otherwise the spectre of unequal treatment arises. I grew up on Mercury and Gemini, watching all those "right stuff" guys. And in the early years of NASA, Nowak, Oefelein and Shipman would all have gotten the boot, for presenting the wrong image. And you can bet those steamy emails would never have surfaced. Anyway, this whole affair has been the biggest slam on the idea of female astronauts since Christa McAuliffe jokes. Maybe it's time now to recruit some lesbians and Test The Rec Room.
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