This is the Right Stuff??

They don't make astronauts like they used to:

CANAVERAL, Fla. - Still on "a major high" from Saturday's successful solar-wing repair, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station cried as they hugged goodbye yesterday and closed the door between them.

The most tears came from Clayton Anderson, who's headed home after five months in orbit, and Daniel Tani, who's starting a two-month mission. They repeatedly wiped their eyes during the farewell ceremony a day before Discovery undocks for its return to Earth.

Can you imagine Alan Shepard, Pete Conrad, Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, or any of the other Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronauts crying at the end of a mission?

They'd rather die.