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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia,net.followup
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 12:31:21 EST
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In article <850@brl-smoke.ARPA> ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
>>   Do I detect a hint of chauvinism here? Does anybody still remember
>> Sputnik? I think it is prtty neat that the Europeans havn't had any
>> fatalities in thier space program as yet.
>> 
>Eh, if you consider the people who put up Sputnik (the Soviets, remember?)
>to be Europeans, then, it is not pretty neat, because they have had
>fatalities in their program as well.
>
>-Ron

	Aside from which, if you don't consider the Soviets to be European,
then they have also not yet had any astronauts in their space program (except
as passengers on the shuttle). It's hard to have fatalities when there are
no people.

	--MKR