But we do have a part to play in it because the lives, the safety of the astronauts are at stake,' along with the future of the space station. Astronauts apparently don't like to be involved with commercialism. Back in early 1997, while American astronauts were living aboard the Russian space station Mir, the cosmonauts had been contracted to star in television commercials. In the middle of all this, they want him to do a milk commercial . It was embarrassing for both of us.
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If you don't, you're cooked. It borders on something out of The Stepford Wives . It's not just important to suck up, you also have to toe the party line and keep a low profile. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin got in trouble for merely suggesting that when an aeroshroud failed to separate from an upper stage rocket in orbit during a Gemini spacecraft mission, that an astronaut spacewalk over and cut the wire holding the shroud in place. Aldrin was nearly drummed out of the astronaut corps for merely making a suggestion.