Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Astronauts Memorial Foundation Information Kit Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 03:40:20 GMT References: <23715@shlump.lkg.dec.com> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 24 In-reply-to: Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us's message of 22 Jun 91 06:32:22 GMT In article Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) writes: I saw the atronauts memorial while at KSC last week. There were at least two, possibly three groups memorialized there I was not familiar with. The Apollo 1 and Challanger astronauts I recognized. The ones I didn't recognize, I can't recall the names, but there was one involving one person, one involving two people, and a pentagram of stars. The two people were Elliot See and Charlie Bassett, who died in a MacDonnell parking lot after their T-38 clipped the corner of a building in the fog in St. Louis (Lambert Field?). The single person was another training accident and I don't recall the name or circumstance, only that it involved a T-38. I _believe_ that the pentagram of stars refers to Cosmonaut deaths, since NASA only claims to have lost 13 in space-related deaths (3 Apollo 1 + 7 Challenger + 2 STL + 1 ?). -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "Turn to kill, not to engage." CDR Willie Driscoll