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From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Von Braun on shuttle
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 22:32:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 22:32:50 1984
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Somebody doubted that von Braun had ever likened the shuttle to an
elephant in a lifeboat ("... alleged statement ...").  When I went to
NASA Headquarters in 1975 it was already common knowledge there.  I
doubt that von Braun or anyone else ever wrote it down.