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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
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497.0. "Mike Collins is My Hero!" by DICKNS::KLAES (Kind of a Zen thing, huh?) Wed Mar 30 1988 21:01
Path: muscat!decwrl!pyramid!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!bverreau
From: [email protected] (stargazer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek
Subject: Re: ST:TNG - "Coming of Age"
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 29 Mar 88 21:10:24 GMT
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Eric Cotton) writes:
>In Mike Collins' (the APOLLO 11 CM pilot) book CARRYING THE FIRE, he
>relates the crew's fear that even a slight trajectory error in their
>course back to Earth could result in the CM skipping off the atmosphere,
>and becoming lost forever. There would not have been a second chance.
Speaking of Mike Collins, I just returned from an astronomy-oriented
cruise on which Mr. Collins was a guest lecturer. When asked, "what
subjects should a prospective astronaut concentrate on in school?", he
replied, "You probably expect me to say Math and Science. Wrong, study
ENGLISH. There are many brilliant engineers and scientists out there who
simply cannot communicate. If you wish to distinguish yourself, develop your
language skills." Something for space-campers and other would-be astronauts
to ponder.
` Bernie Verreau Microprocessor Design, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Ca. '
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