"Ace Pilot" wrote in message
om...

Doesn't NASA have a bunch already? Weren't Neil Armstrong during
Gemini
and
Apollo, and Harrison Schmidt on Apollo 14, civilians?


We have the first astronaut of a civilian funded spacecraft.

I do believe civilians have funded every penny of the US space program.

I do believe that is wrong. Military personnel pay federal taxes, so
not every penny came from civilians.

And their pay comes from....???