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From: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
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Date: 24 Aug 89 20:18:40 GMT
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In article <1904@brwa.inmos.co.uk> conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
> I recently went around ``Spaceport USA'' at KSC, and I noticed
> that among all the exhibits there was not a single mention of
> the Challenger disaster. I've also heard since that it is illegal
> to show the film of the disaster in America. Is this true?
>
> Are all Americans ostriches (heads in the sand), or just NASA?

Challenger?  What disaster?  
Maybe your thinking of an old TWILLIGHT ZONE episode.

(Wasn't there one about an experimental spacecraft that disappears,
then comes back 24 hours later and crashes?   And the three astronauts
disappear one by one, and nobody remembers them after they disapper.
And finally it's like they never existed in ther first place.)

Seriously, I saw that ABC is doing a made for TV move about the Challenger,
staring my favorite actress of all time ... Karen Allen.

Or maybe I just dreamed the whole thing.

John S. Watson, Civil Servant from Hell        ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov 
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