He objects to a rule introduced last June that goes onestepbeyond the longtime prohibition on kids playing for Minnesota Hockey teams outside their districts, and declares that kids can be kicked off their community team for joining any other team during the winter months.
"This will be onestep in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.