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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: RL-10
- Message-ID: <ewright.716575398@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:43:18 GMT
- References: <9209111320.AA13915@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> <1992Sep11.172322.2177@iti.org> <1992Sep12.145556.21649@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Sep13.010306.5063@iti.org>,<BuHtv1.3ps@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Sep14.161020.6273@eng.umd.edu>
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- In <1992Sep14.161020.6273@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
-
- >>Because "astronauts are national treasures", and if you kill one, your
- >>program grinds to a halt for a couple of years. If you kill a test pilot,
- >>you name a street after him at Edwards, and carry on flying.
-
- >Probably more astronauts now than test pilots, if you include the mission
- >specialists.
-
- >Of course, "national treasure" is a strange way to put it.
-
- Oh? You think so? Do you remember the test pilot who was killed
- returning from space in his X-15 back in the 1960's? I bet not.
- Compare him to the Challenger astronauts or Grissom, White, and
- Chaffee.
-