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From: sanderso@rpics (Donald B. Sanderson)
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Subject: Re: Did Challenger Happen?
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Date: 28 Aug 89 14:37:02 GMT
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In article <334.24F7EF42@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> Mac.Druaidh@f69.n363.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mac Druaidh) writes:
>There are memorials to killed workers, astronauts, and the like on the Space 
>Coast; I will attempt to find out info on same and return to the 
>conversation. 
> 

 A rather impressive memorial to the Challenger 7 is planned (in construction?).
It will consist of a Dark Slab of rock, through which the names of the
astronauts have been drilled.  The slab will be elevated with a mirror
behind it, and a motor drive that will follow the sun.  Thus the names will
glow with the light from the sky they were reaching for.  This is to be
located somwhere in the KSC complex, but I do not know where.
 This memorial is being erected by the people of Florida, specifically
those of us who pay the extra fee each year for a Challenger Memorial
License Plate. The rest of the funds generated by these plates are used to
to fund college scholarships.
 I have hade one fo these plates since they first became available I like
to think of it as a mobile memorial. It is a conversation starter 
(Especially while I am out of State), and let's me get a pro space 
point or two across when I am asked about it.

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