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A former high school student of mine wrote me a nice email awhile back. She was doing an internship at NASA. She is an amazing young lady. She has the kidney disease that stunts growth. She had her license to fly gliders. She knew tons of stuff about space and aviation. While in high school, she said she would be an astronaut some day. Being an "expert" on the qualifications for the astronaut program, I in my mind DQd her physically. I'm a lot of times too cynical with a half empty glass. She got her foot in the NASA door. She just may some day indeed reach the stars.
If not as an astronaut (medical is the same or worse than DoDMERB), perhaps as a NASA scientist or engineer . . . I am an engineer (perhaps former engineer given my station) that is just a "knuckle dragging rocket guy" that is blessed to work with amazingly talented and intelligent people . . . the young ones I meet (whether military or civilian) that have the "space bug" are just awe inspiring . . . I'm just glad I'm older and don't have to qualify for entry any longer . . .