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From: don@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger
Message-ID: <846@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 19:57:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 19:57:34 1986
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> "If we die, we want people to accept it.  We're in a risky business, and we
> hope if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program.  The conquest
> of space is worth the risk of life."
> 
> 					Virgil I. Grissom
> 					commander, Apollo 1
> 					speaking a few weeks before his
> 					death in the Apollo fire
> -- 
> Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

>>From: rjnoe@riccb.UUCP
> Organization: Rockwell International - Downers Grove, IL
>
>> I'm feeling a lot of grief.
>> 
>> Maybe we should rename the news-group net.challenger, in memoriam?
>> -- 
>>     ....!hplabs!faunt	faunt@hplabs.ARPA    415-655-8604
>
> Your grief is understood and shared by all.  But if (IF) the group is to be
> renamed, it may as well be net.space.shuttle.
> --
> Roger Noe			ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe

Given Virgil "Gus" Grissom's quote above, I think we should indeed accept
the loss of the US Space Shuttle Challenger, and move on ... I think the
newsgroup ought to be renamed "net.space.shuttle" so as to include ALL
of the space shuttles; not excluding any one of them.


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