Space-shuttle astronauts?

Rating: Null/10 (2 December 1998)

What more can be said? But some scenes are irksome or unexplainable. I mean, come on, how many films aimed primarily at kids have one brother call another brother "penis-breath"? (Makes me wish we still had the Hayes Commission.) And what about this head-scratcher: when the Feds finally close in on E.T. they burst into Elliot's house in what appear to be actual space-suits (not just bio-protection suits) clearly marked with NASA Space Shuttle patches. What was Spielberg trying to tell us here, and why didn't it get across?