Waitaminute... "Yale education"?
Isn't Sheila Jackson Lee the one who wondered if our Mars lander would be able to see the American flag that the astronauts left there? Or am I thinking of somebody else?
"Yale education".... Naw, can't be.....
A remarkable gaffe
A remarkable gaffe by Sheila Jackson-Lee, a Republican legislator from Texas and member of a congressional space and aeronautics committee, has Capitol Hill abuzz.
On a visit to the Mars Pathfinder mission control centre in California she is reported to have inquired whether the space probe had succeeded in taking pictures of the American flag planted by the astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969.
"We just don't teach enough science," lamented Vernon Ehlers, another member of the committee.