Space Settlers
Mary Cleave, one of the women later to the pool of future Shuttle crewmembers, had things in pithy perspective. "The early astronauts were the explorers, " she said. "We are homesteads"

Just Another Prof
Shortly after the tenth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Armstrong was taking part in the filming of a segment of a Japanese television documentary series at the Alabama Space and Rocket center. During a break, the author asked whether his young engineering students at the University of Cincinnati stood in awe of him. Replied Armstrong with a grin, "Not after the first quiz. "

How's That Again?
In covering early United States space launchings at Cape Canaveral, one Italian journalist caused confusion whenever he tried to make flight reservation into out of nearby Orlando. His name: Orlando Orlando.

Sounds Reasonable
When the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico changed its name to the Air Force Missile Development Center, an officer at the aerospace center explained: "We don't develop air, we develop missiles.

Old-Country Yes-Men?
When one of America's German-born space scientist once visited an electronics laboratory, his assistants, also Germans seemed reluctant to express any opinion on the problems at hand until their boss had first given his views. Then they would mutter in agreement: "Ja, Ja."
Asked his impression of the group later, an engineer replied, "Aw, they're just a bunch of ja-ja-men."

Front-Office Talk
First technician: I hear you are going to be an astronaut.
Second technician: Who told you that?
First technician: Well, I just came from the office and the boss said you were just taking up space!

What's in a Word?
Sign in an aerospace research and development lab:
This is A
LABORATORY…
Let's Have
More LABOR, Less ORATORY

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