"Dave Stadt" wrote in message ...
"Jay Masino" wrote in message
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:
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We have a civilian astronaut.

yeeeehaaa!

Doesn't NASA have a bunch already? Weren't Neil Armstrong during Gemini
and
Apollo, and Harrison Schmidt on Apollo 14, civilians?


We have the first astronaut of a civilian funded spacecraft.

I do believe civilians have funded every penny of the US space program.

I do believe that is wrong. Military personnel pay federal taxes, so
not every penny came from civilians.