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>>>   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.
-- 
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