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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Healing and going on
Message-ID: <473@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 10:40:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 10:40:28 1986
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In article <13900008@hpfcla.UUCP> ajs@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>Here is part of a letter I mailed to NASA.  In it I suggest one way to
>help us all heal, recover, and go on.  If you also like the idea, it
>might help to write such a letter yourself.
>
>    I share your  shock,  anguish,  and  concern  over the recent
> Shuttle tragedy.  Mere words cannot convey my grief.
>
>    The manned space program will -- must -- continue.  I suggest
> an  appropriate  way to help return it to normal.  When the very
> next Shuttle  mission  reaches orbit, the crew should  perform a
> memorial service and burial in space.  If remains are found, the
> scattering of ashes in orbit will be a fitting  tribute to those
> who lost their  lives,  and a  suitable  close to this  terrible
> chapter in the story of mankind's journey out to the stars.
>
>
>Alan Silverstein

Don't you think the astronauts' families should have something to say
about it?