Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why 3 SSME's?
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.015631.7621@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <538.252A3A3B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> <SHAFER.89Oct11081832@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 89 01:56:31 GMT

In article <SHAFER.89Oct11081832@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
>But there's risk in everything that we do.  How do you deal with risk?
>What do you think about being an astronaut, knowing the safety record?
>I'd be at the Cape tomorrow, if they'd let me.  Am I the only one?

Never mind tomorrow; my credit cards and I would be at the airport in an
hour, ready to grab the first flight south.  (Of course, that might well
end up being tomorrow anyway...)
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