"Overlord" wrote in message
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A couple of the males in her class:
MICHAEL ³MIKE² FINCKE (LIEUTENANT COLONEL, USAF)
NASA ASTRONAUT: over 825 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft
types.

I really love this one...825 hours in more than 30 different aircraft
types....gimme a ****in' break. I want to see this guy's logbook.

LEE M.E. MORIN, M.D., PH.D. (CAPTAIN, USN)
NASA ASTRONAUT: doesn't seem to be a pilot at all.

And therefore not an astronaut....a mission specialist maybe?


I know this will not convince you; however, here is the Wikipedia definition
of "astronaut."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut
Dictionary.com defines it as:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/astronaut
You don't have to be a pilot to meet the "travel in space" definition.

NASA has several set of wings for crew members. Career Astronauts,
Astronaut Candidates and Mission Specialist Astronauts.
(http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/) The term astronaut applies to all crew
members.

By the way, where did you find the "Pilots only" astronaut definition?

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/