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From: cew@venera.isi.edu (Craig E. Ward)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Name
Summary: Name it for a fallen astronaut
Keywords: shuttle, names, astronauts, grissom
Message-ID: <7831@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 89 18:52:33 GMT
References: <11000010@tippy>
Reply-To: cew@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Craig E. Ward)
Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle
Organization: OASIS, A Chapter of the National Space Society
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It doesn't fit the criteria setup by NASA (name of a past or present ship of
exploration) but I feel it would be appropriate and meaningful to name the
new shuttle after Gus Grissom.  Or would that be morbid?  We name aircraft
carriers after dead heros.

Craig
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