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From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle risk, (was: Why 3 SSME's?)
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Date: 12 Oct 89 15:43:11 GMT
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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?

No way!  I'd go in a minute!  So would my wife.  As soon as I get enough
"real work" experience, I'm sending an application in (I was hoping to
send in an application immediately after I got my PhD, but......oh well....
just call me a graduate student drop-out).

I still think it's safer than my daily commute.

		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>