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Old 12th April 2026 | 01:42
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After watching the recording of the event in Houston welcoming the Crew of Artemis II home:

The author of The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, might have some trouble coining an apt phrase for these four Astronauts (3 NASA, 1 Canadian Space Agency (CSA)). Quite a distance from the archetype celebrated in that book (and represented tolerably well in the Hollywood portrayal). Were the "something of a dude" in New York - because of his famed sartorial style - writing today, I am inclined to believe that in order to produce similarly memorable writing about these Astronauts' "stuff", Wolfe would have turned back to his previous work. Not Right Stuff - no, he would have used The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as inspirstuon and lodestone.

Too freaking much!! Space explorers with enough gratitude to be credible about it!! And throw politics out the urine-dump spacecraft vent and into space - there on the stage was the Maple Leaf flag next to the Stars and Stripes - that ought to blow some of the buttoned-down uptight minds! And for the inclusion (deliberate word choice) of French by the CSA Astronaut - "That's good thinking there, Cool [Astronaut]."*

*first line of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
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