From reading the wikipedia entry, am I to believe that NASA does not designate the commander of their shuttles and such by "Captain"? Instead they use the term Commander, right?My question is- if its a military spaceflight, like in the USAF for example, would they use the naval term as captain for commanding the rocket/shuttle, or would they stick with the NASA term of Commander?
I worked with some difficult people, too, One particularly abrasive astronaut flew on several shuttle flights for which I was lead CAPCOM: we had to work together closely, particularly during the missions he commanded....except when I had to work with this guy. He was highly skilled, technically, but also arrogant and confrontational, the kind of person who regularly swore at me, berated me and told me in no uncertain terms that I was a bumbling fool.
Once flying up to Washington in a NASA jet, I stopped to refuel and a military guy I'd never met before noticed the plane and said, Hey do you know _____? What an ******* !