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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.JHU.EDU (Kenneth Arromdee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Shuttle Down
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Date: 18 Oct 88 16:15:30 GMT
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Arromdee)
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>One of the people I work with called NASA about one of the things in the
>book.  As Lee Correy stated they don't carry passports and at least then
>had no plans to start.  So they could be considered ilegal aliens :-)

I recall that eventually there was an update essay, either published in
Analog or in the paperback version of the book (I don't remember) which
said that the book caused quite a stir at NASA and that most of the events
in it could no longer happen today (i.e., the astronauts now carry passports).
--
"Destroy the universe?  Where's he going to live?"
     --Infinity Inc #??

Kenneth Arromdee (....!jhunix!ins_akaa)