You've reached your one-post-per-year quota already and I think it's been well spent. This seems to be a perfect rationale when you put it in these terms
Re:Apollo 15 postage stamp incident
by plibither8 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:51AM
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> You've reached your one-post-per-year quota already
I've tried to make sense out of your comment but have failed. What do you exactly mean by this sentence?
Suspect he was referring to the frequency of the parent poster's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chazzyluc
Re:Apollo 15 postage stamp incident
by plibither8 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:03AM
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Ah yes, that makes sense now. Thank you.
The point of allowing astronauts to bring personal items was to help keep their mental health stable and morale high over the course of an 8+ day journey in a very confined space under extreme stress. Having crew members thinking about how their side hustle was going to pan out when they got home would be a distraction and not in line with the goal of the personal item allocation.
Additionally, if it was left unchecked then future astronauts would have had to choose between bringing a picture of their loved ones or passing up on a financial bonus which would have led to a bad situation.
I can see why NASA cracked down on it pretty aggressively.