European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes july 1985 a photo space shuttle challenger Landing last will citizen astronauts be among future passengers once is not enough be tourism by Sharon Herbaugh associated press a fraternity of daring that for almost two decades admitted Only a chosen few Ordinary supermen is now opening its ranks to american space travel is no longer limited to the military test the fighter jocks of gemini and Earth orbit is no longer a province limited to the the the aerospace Engineer or the the Era of the citizen space voyager has the National aeronautics and space administration announced its spaceflight participant program in april 1984 and tapped into the dreams of Nasa awash with let ters from More than people from around the said spoke the Astro the the aerospace Engineer or the the Era of the citizen space voyager has the National aeronautics and space administration announced its spaceflight participant program in april 1984 and tapped into the dreams of Nasa Mai rooms Are awash with letters from More than people from around the said spokesman Alan artists and priests and real estate salesmen and travel sociologists and in All shapes and Ages and from Poland to Are asking for a 1 came from the horse and buggy to space Edward Howard a 76yearold contractor from wrote in a letter to the Johnson space Center in 1 actually lived to see the Day when i would make an application for space no matter no one can take that away from one Man wrote Nasa 40 times in three the space Agency refused to release his fearing it would Only encourage some pregnant women have offered to have their babies in almost since the birth of the space people have talked of sending an Ordinary citizen into but Early space capsules were too Small for nonessential in february a task Force began considering whether private citizens should be flown and How they should be after 18 the group recommended that shuttle Crews include Citi zen observers who could communicate their experiences in Les technical terms than the Ladwig a schoolteacher to be named this sum Mer will be the first tourist astronaut on a trip tentatively scheduled for january two or three citizen observers a year May Fly in the near lad wig the selection process for the citizen space traveler is a Pale version of that used to select recent members of the 90strong astronaut and current astronaut selection Only approaches the rigor used to choose astronauts in the Early Days of space in tests for the Mercury or gemini pro candidates were heated and they were tilted and rotated in dark ened rooms and spun in they did a lot of strange tests because they didst know what it took for a Man to function in so they just decided to test us in every Way they could think said Alan americas first Man in it took Morehan another decade and the development of the space history most advanced space before Nasa opened the door to eleven women Are now along with scores of no pilots Astrino physicists and the astronauts today Are so much there and they fit the Job better if vow 0wfr Var y Kon m my because they know what the Job said former astronaut Alan who retired from Nasa in 1981 after 18 a lot of them had been planning to be astronauts since they were in elementary in astronaut training is now As different As Early spacecraft Are from the pilots still must Fly the Craft and most Are former military Jet no Pilot astronauts Are called Mission they perform Essen technical jobs such As launching sat walking in space and operating the robot but the payload the title for the passengers who make single Are a different the medical standards Are much More an applicant need Only be in reasonably Good health and Able to get on and off the spacecraft without each must have a resting pulse under blood pressure 160 Over be Able to hear a whispered voice from feet with a hearing Aid if necessary and have eyesight correctable to 2040 in the better Ladwig unlike the astronauts who undergo hours of training in their first the Citi zen passenger will have Only about 114 hours before much of that time will be spent learning to talk the exotic Lan Guage of acronyms and abbreviations known but to a 305page dictionary will explain the difference Between arcs for Ward reaction control system and Fra focal collection receptacle Assembly and that Mac can be manual pointing memory Protection meteorological prediction Center or mid body Pyro you actually feel pretty said Mark a 32yearold air Force Cap Tain completing his first year of astronaut you go to briefings and have no idea what there talking the citizen astronaut will also receive Hig Altitude go through acrobatic Maneu vers in a t38 fighter Jet and take a roller coaster like ride on the a Turbojet nicknamed the vomit Comet that gives the Passen Ger a few moments of about two months before the space the passenger joins the astronaut Crew for including flight simulations lasting 24 to 72 hours to help the group learn to work then its launch in a moment measured in fractional the engines will ignite and the Pound spacecraft will climb into youre travelling faster than 10 times the Speed of a Rifle Bullet in this thing that has enough fuel to Power the generators and Light the entire East coast for however bean and its roaring and rattling and hissing and moaning and and you realize that anybody with a lick of sense is three Miles the Force of Gravity eyeballs press into sockets chests push against rib Crew members Are sailing around the Earth once every 90 250 Miles High and trav Eling at As Many As eight people will live for up to a week in an area about the size of a one car the shuttle has no Pri no Shower and a complicated meals Are canned or and sleep May come in a zipped bag tied to a the citizen passengers Only responsibility in critical phases of the Mission will be to stay out of the after five to 10 Days in the citizen passenger will return to alighting with the rest of the Crew a bathed and staggered by the sudden return to but if the citizen astronauts Are like other payload specialists who have said Kathy who oversees pay Load specialist  have Only they All wish it haunt they want to go she once is not