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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
Message-ID: <3696@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 19:41:22 GMT
References: <1904@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Reply-To: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab
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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?
>-- 
>Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd. UK: conor@inmos.co.uk
>Disclaimer: All views are my own,         US: @col.hp.com:conor@inmos-c
>            not those of INMOS.
>"It's state-of-the-art" "But it doesn't work!" "That is the state-of-the-art".

I'm a bit surprised there isn't some sort of memorial, but then again,
how many times to you see memorials to Apollo 1, hmmm?  That was just
as much a 'disaster' as the Challenger blowing up, or the HUNDREDS of
fatal accidents that occur in experimantal aviation.  

Thomas C. Murphy                  Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab
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