She seems like quite a busy high schooler and has a future in politics here. She is trying to get Gus Grissom's space suit moved back to his museum in Mitchell, Indiana. That seems to be as good a place as any to have his space suit. After some Googling here is a link to her site.
It shouldn't be hidden in the Smithsonian with a bunch of other guys suits but have some sort of place of honor at his museum. It seems that NASA doesn't like the Grissom family very much according to the article:
Relations between Grissom's wife, Betty, and NASA have been uneasy since he and two other Apollo 1 astronauts died in a 1967 command module fire during a training exercise. The space agency, she feels, ignored her family after the tragedy, even as it honored the crews of Challenger and Columbia.
Maybe that is why they seem to be dragging their feet on this thing and is going to make a ruling four months from now. After the media heat dies down of course. It seems like the Smithsonian is kind of hostile to this thing too:
"Amanda Meyer is a nice young lady, and as well meaning as she is, she's a third party in this," said Roger Launius, chairman of space history at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
So she should just forget about all this grownup stuff and go back to playing with her little dolls? Maybe the article took his words out of context but he sure sounds like he is saying that Amanda should just butt out of this whole thing. Hey Grissom is her hero so it is only right that she is fighting to get his space suit placed at his museum. I think Mr. Launius should not condescend to people interested in the thing that he is a historian of.
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