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   From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2019-07-14, JAB  wrote:   
   > "He was sort of an amateur photographer," Jennifer Levasseur, a   
   > curator in charge of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's   
   > astronaut cameras, says of Schirra. "Somewhere along the line, the   
   > decision was made that he could select what camera was flown on his   
   > flight."   
      
   Imagine a bureaucracy these days that would make such a crazy decision   
   as letting the astronaut have his own camera.  These days there would be   
   committees, and subcontractors, and endless paperwork.  No wonder that   
   generation got so much shit done.   
      
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