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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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Subject: Re: Re: A new Shuttle to replace Challenger: What Name?
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 17:58:05 EST
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In article <2911@ut-ngp.UUCP>, dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP (Donald L. Nash) writes:
> _Endeavour_ would be a good name, but not _Challenger_.  Call me
> sentimental, but when a ship is destroyed, its name should not used
> again.  To me, that would almost be like saying "Well, it blew up.  Oh,
> well, we'll just make a new one and everything will be OK."  As for
> naming it _Christa_ or _McAlliffe_ (sp?), I don't think that should be
> done, since there were 6 other people who died, too.  I know, she was a
> civilian, not a military person trained to deal with the possibility of
> getting killed.

     First, there is PLENTY of precedent for naming vessels after older
destroyed vessels - otherwise, we'd never have an Enterprise.

     Second, why do you believe Christa McAuliffe wasn't "trained to deal
with the possibility of getting killed"?  It doesn't take a great deal of
intelligence to deduce the (tragically, now realized) explosive potential
of gigantic amounts of LOX and LOH, and I'm sure that the training she
underwent did not make light of the dangers.  No, she wasn't military, but
neither was Gregory Jarvis, and besides, most of the military isn't trained
to deal with getting killed, either, they're just expected to DO it, if
necessary.

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