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Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 10:18:43 EST
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In article <1129@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) 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.
>
>The French flew a cosmonaut on a Soviet flight well before we
>allowed allies on ours.
>-- 

>James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

	Yes, but being guest ballast on someone else's flight is not the
same. If that French astronaut had gone up in smoke, I doubt that too
many people would have blamed the French space program, except to the
extent that "he shouldn't have been going to space to begin with."
 --MKR