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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Lost in Space: Common Sense
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Political correctness has invaded space! NASA and the
- EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY have buckled under fussbudget accusations
- that Buck Rogers terminology is sexist. As a result, NASA will
- no longer refer to "manned" flights but will describe the
- missions as "habitated" and "unhabitated," or "crewed" and
- "uncrewed." Says a NASA spokesman: "We have been ordered to
- delete any reference by sex, on the grounds that `manned' flight
- is crude and `crewed' is p.c." Even so, some sociologists are
- still not satisfied. They prefer "space flight by human beings."
- Female astronauts find these linguistic aerobics foolish. Says
- one: "Common sense is the victim of all this rhetoric."
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