Sounds like for once Dick Cheney might actually be useful for something, in this case, the role of spokesman.

Then again although Joe Allen was a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15, he never went to the Moon. Instead he logged his space hours in LEO in the Shuttle before leaving NASA in 1985.

So his lack of response might have been a silent "Not only is that a stupid question, but, why are you asking me?"

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