Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!stanford.edu!eos!aio!aio.jsc.nasa.gov!grimm From: grimm@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith A. Grimm) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Astronauts Memorial Foundation Information Kit Message-ID: <1991Jun24.130342.17453@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 24 Jun 91 13:03:42 GMT References: <23715@shlump.lkg.dec.com> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Reply-To: ricks@berkeley.edu Organization: UC Berkeley IC CAD Group Lines: 29 In article , shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: |> 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 The single astronaut killed was Ted Freeman in 1964. He sucked a snow goose into the air inlet of his T-38 as he was approaching here at Ellington Field or as it was at the time Ellington Air Force Base. He was the first death in the astrounaut corps.