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From: asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: The Mortal Chariot 'Challenger'
Message-ID: <101@cpro.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 10:37:36 EST
Article-I.D.: cpro.101
Posted: Mon Mar  3 10:37:36 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 21:46:02 EST
References: <1179@cvl.UUCP> <595@well.UUCP> <1008@burl.UUCP>
Reply-To: asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner)
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Organization: CompuPro/VIASYN Corporation
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Keywords: shuttle,Challenger,space station
Summary: Memories,Naming things

In article <1008@burl.UUCP> rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>In article <595@well.UUCP> rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) writes:
>>
>>  Discussions here at the WELL in the Space conference have brought up
>>the beautiful idea that we should memorialize the Challenger Seven with
>>a simple placque.... on board the Space Station.
>
>I LIKE IT!!!  I LIKE IT!!!

While reading this group these days, it seems that Reagan will not abandon
the space station, but will press for a speeded-up schedule, when the
contractors and NASA get the STS re-certified.  If (or when) they do, one
point comes to mind.  There has been much conversation about what to name
a new orbiter, if one is built.  My question, is what are we going to call
the space station?  The movies do not provide anything sufficently eloquent,
and my belief in the future expansion of man into space *needs* something
poetic so there is more political "push" for using the station for human
needs, and not military needs.
-- 
May the farce be with you.
J.R. Stoner, Esq. CompuPro/VIASYN Corporation, Hayward, CA
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