Angelina Souren
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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt:
Reading that a minor problem with your right eye kept you from fulfilling your ambition as an astronaut makes me want to ask you two things. Were you in training as an astronaut? (The second one is whether you fly small airplanes.)
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
I didn't make the cut - standards are standards, and they had so many people to choose from - so no, no training - but will never forget that week in Houston when my cohort went through the mill in testing!
I would have learned to fly if I'd been selected, probably. But I ended working at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, in my field, and that didn't happen - but I got to do what I had been trained for.
I would have learned to fly if I'd been selected, probably. But I ended working at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, in my field, and that didn't happen - but I got to do what I had been trained for.
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Maggie Percy
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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt:
Loved your book! I left a review. It jarred me at one point when reading to see the name of a character in the book I am currently writing: Samantha Taylor. How odd is that? Congratulations and hope you enjoy great success! Don't really have a question, just wanted to say hi.
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