better get along much better than humansusually did. An all-male crew had been vetoed as unhealthy and sociailyunstable from lessons learned earlier. A ship’s company of four marriedcouples had been decided on as optimum, if the necessary specialties couldbe found in such a combination.
The University of Edinburgh, prime contractor, sub-contracted crew selectionto the Institute for Social Studies. After discarding the chaff of volunteersuseless through age, health, mentality, training, or temperament, the Institutestill had over nine thousand candidates to work from, each sound in mind andbody and having at least one of the necessary special skills. It was expectedthat the Institute would report several acceptable four-couple crews.
No such crew was found. The major skills needed were astrogator, medicaldoctor, cook, machinist, ship’s commander, semantician, chemical engineer,replica rolex watches,electronics engineer, physicist, geologist, biochemist, biologist,imitation rolex watches, atomicsengineer, photographer, hydroponicist, rocket engineer. Each crew memberwould have to possess more than one skill,Homepage, or be able to acquire extra skillsin time. There were hundreds of possible combinations of eight peoplepossessing these skills; there turned up three combinations of four marriedcouples possessing them, plus health and intelligence.-but in all three casesthe group-dynamicists who evaluated the temperament factors forcompatibility threw up their hands in horror.
The prime contractor suggested lowering the compatibility figure-ofmerit; theInstitute stiffly offered to return its one dollar fee. In the meantime a computerprogrammer whose name was not recorded had the machines hunt for threecouplerump crews. She found several dozen compatible combinations, eachof which defined by its own characteristics the couple needed to complete it.
In the meantime the machines continued to review the data changing throughdeaths, withdrawals, new volunteers, etc.
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