The first commercial flight into space was piloted this June by a 63-year-old
who had been forced to quit his day job as a domestic airline pilot.
When he appeared on the Jay Leno show to publicise this feat, he pointed out that he was available to fly in space only because the government had deemed him unfit to fly underneath it.
How the audience laughed at this spectacle of a bureaucracy gone mad, that a man should have been reduced by ageism to becoming an astronaut.
When he appeared on the Jay Leno show to publicise this feat, he pointed out that he was available to fly in space only because the government had deemed him unfit to fly underneath it.
How the audience laughed at this spectacle of a bureaucracy gone mad, that a man should have been reduced by ageism to becoming an astronaut.
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