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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fatalities?
Message-ID: <12589@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 4 Feb 90 16:01:27 GMT
References: <3467@netxcom.DHL.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <3467@netxcom.DHL.COM>, ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles) writes:
} 
} 	Two hours after a successful countdown rehersal for space shuttle
} 	Columbia, a Rockwell technician is killed and four others injured at
} 	Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39-A.
	....
} 
} I find this odd, because I kept a VERY good watch for news regarding the
} space program, and I NEVER saw or heard anything about this until now.
} 
} Was there nothing reported in the regular news services?

It definitely was reported; I'm quite certain I saw it in the papers at
the time.  And I was living in North Carolina at the time -- hardly
the home of the world's most comprehensive news services.