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From: arul@sdsu.edu (Arul Ananthanarayanan)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
Message-ID: <1989Aug26.065153.3802@sdsu.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 89 06:51:53 GMT
References: <1904@brwa.inmos.co.uk> <3696@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: arul@sdsu.sdsu.edu (Arul Ananthanarayanan)
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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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

I was at Spaceport USA on August 10th a few days after the recent launch.

There is bronzed eagle monument to the ten astronauts who died. (Challenger
and Apollo)

The Imax theater presentation was dedicated to the Challenger crew. 

There were various other references too; pictures of the crew in the gift
shop and such.  I didn't get the impression that they were trying to hide 
anything. 


The crawler transport was out and about on the way back from 39A (or B?),
pretty exciting stuff.


Arul


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