Hi all,
The actual lawsuit was thrown out by the Supreme Court over "the lack of jurisdiction." It appears that since the spaceship, and it's occupants were government property, they exceeded the territorial limits of the jurisdiction of the US and what they crew members said and did were beyond control of the US and the constitution. Technically, they could've read the "Seven Dirty Words" and the most that could happen to them would be expelled from the space proram. Yet, the only illegal activity that could've taken place onboard the spaceship that would hold up in a military or civil court was a mutiny, basically pirating from within. It appears that the word "Ship" is covered no matter where it is located. So a spaceship 200,000 miles from earth can not be mutinied wthout punishment, yet you can swear until you turn blue without repurcussion.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Tejera" [email protected] To: "Clint Bradford" [email protected] Cc: "AMSAT BB" [email protected]; "ARISS-ops OPS" [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 4:16 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Historic NASA Audio
That broadcast generated a bit of controversy as well. NASA was sued by Madalyn Murray O'Hare, an athiest, for mixing religion on what was essentially a govt. Run operation. Nothing came of it, except an increased paranoia within NASA about what was said over the air.
BTW, the voices were in order: CDR Frank Borman, CMP Jim Lovell and LMP Bill Anders.
73 and a Merry Christmas to all!
Sent from my iPod Rick Tejera Editor, SACnews Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org K7TEJ
On Dec 24, 2010, at 9:42, Clint Bradford [email protected] wrote:
The famous 1968 NASA telecast recalls the first public, voice-over-radio broadcast, also on Christmas Eve.
ttp://tinyurl.com/nasa-1968
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