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From: afb@pucc-i (Michael Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Comparison between Challanger-plane crashes, auto crashes...
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 10:05:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 10:05:19 1986
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Summary: "...first such disaster for our space program."  This is news to me. How soon they (but not we) forget...


     I can't remember exactly which Apollo mission it was, but sometime in 1967
there was an oxygen fire on the launch pad which took the lives of Gus Grissom
(there is a building on Purdue's campus and an Air Force base in Northern 
Indiana named after him) and two other astronauts whose names elude me. 

     Perhaps I should've waited 'til I had read all of the current net.space
postings before posting this myself...I have a feeling others have already 
jumped on it...

	       Michael Lewis @ Purdue University