[FPSPACE] wow ! It's Asif !

[Keith Gottschalk]

     My copy of  Asif Siddiqi's 1011 pages has just reached Cape Town - & note the roll call of honour in Acknowledgements to FPSPACE-ers:

Phillip Clark,  James Harford,  Charles Vick, Mark Wade, David Woods etc.

     & equally amazing. The USG Printing Office had my credit card no. rejected - though I had at least five times the cost of Mr. Siddiqi in it. No doubt South African foreign exchange red tape. But instead of writing that they will wait until a bank draft reaches them before posting my order, the Superintendent of Documents clerk trusted me enough, even after the suspicious credit card rejection, to airmail straight away "Challenge to Apollo" to me, trusting the alien foreign customer to send on the US$98-75 by other means.

   Are we astronautics & astronomy fans such an honest lot? Are "colourful cosmonautics" characters such rareties that we can be trusted?  Maybe the US Printing Office knows that we WANT Mr. Siddiqi & NASA to get their royalties, like a fan club :)    :)