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From: witters@fluke.UUCP (John Witters)
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Subject: Re: Re: A new Shuttle to replace Challenger
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 11:33:54 EST
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> > Further thought:  Tragic though ALL seven deaths were, the teacher, the 
> > civilian, Christa McAuliffe, whom all the children were watching,
> > has stuck the hearts of the nation as the most tragic of all.
> > May I suggest that a new shuttle, once built, be named
> > the Space Shuttle McAuliffe.
> > 
> 
> 	Why not the Scobee... or the Smith... or the Onizuka... or
> 	Resnik, McNair, or Jarvis.  To single out McAuliffe seems to
> 	me to be supporting the attitude expressed by John Glenn,
> 	that astronauts are different from civilians, (Because they're
> 	paid for taking chances? I don't know!) and thus civilians
> 	have no business being in space.  Poppycock.

Why not remember them all by naming it "CHALLENGER II"?

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