[FPSPACE] NY Times: "Brazil's Man in Space: A Mere 'Hitchhiker, ' or a Hero?"

[Brett Harrison]

Jim Oberg wrote:
> 
> NY Times: "Brazil's Man in Space: A Mere 'Hitchhiker,' or a Hero?"


The physicist quoted sounded like a grumpy scientist with no
understanding of how spaceflight gets a lot of its funding.
He's probably just cost them a few million in support dollars.


> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/world/americas/08rio.html
> 
> I particularly enjoyed the photo of Pontes in a zero-G airplane
> flight, captioned "Col. Marcos Pontes in antigravity training."


Perhaps he was floating *upwards* at the time. :)


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Brett Harrison