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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 08:29 PM
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Lines from an Astronaut's autobigraphy...
Edited on Tue Jan-17-06 08:30 PM by JonathanChance
The boys at Fark are having such fun with this article...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/17/shuttle.astronaut.reut/index.html

"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot," Mullane wrote. "I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."

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Further humiliations lay ahead, like the time Mullane tried on a NASA-issued condom -- used for urine collection in weightlessness -- and watched the too-large sheath drop off and fall to the floor.

"I'll have you know I've fathered three children with this!" is what Mullane wanted to shout to the condom-fitting technician but didn't. A complaint might have derailed his selection as an astronaut.
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