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From: bdietz@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jack Dietz)
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Subject: Re: MANY QUESTIONS (Shuttle cabin survival)
Summary: Wrong name...
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Date: 21 Mar 91 11:50:45 GMT
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In article <940@igor.Rational.COM> wab@eclipse.Rational.COM (Bill Baker) writes:
>I'm sure that on the first shuttle launch Truly was thinking to
>himself, "The hell with the ejection seats.  If the shit hits the fan,
>I'm shutting down the computers and putting this baby down by the seat
>of my pants."

	Uh, Truly (and Engle) were on STS-3.  You're probably
thinking of Cdr. John Young.

>I'm still waiting for one of those exhaustive Henry Spencer
>rebuttals to my original posting.

	Sounds like fun.  He _does_ seem to spend quite a bit of
time in `postnews', doesn't he?  =)

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