Gregory Olsen has returned to Earth. Folks and the media didn’t seem to pay a lot of attention to the welfare of this 60-year-old private citizen during his ten-day space odyssey. To me this is additional support for my proposal of nearly two years ago (http://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2003/11/18) in which I suggested that human space flight be turned over to private adventurers like Mr. Olsen so that we don’t have the tragic spectacle of young government employees getting killed in the line of duty. Olsen’s biography makes it apparent that he is as qualified to do scientific experiments as anyone that has ever ridden on a NASA flight.