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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!BrianT
  2. From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: Apollo fire
  5. Message-ID: <69468@cup.portal.com>
  6. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 18:26:59 PST
  7. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  8. References: <BxLwzr.3L3.1@cs.cmu.edu> <BxM70B.7pG@zoo.toronto.edu>
  9.   <roelle.721603155@uars_mag>
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  12. I remember the incident, two men were killed while working inside the engine
  13. compartment of Columbia in March, 1981. This was prior to the maiden flight
  14. of the Space Shuttle, when ground procedures were still new and uncertain.
  15. I've forgotten the two men's names, but they wofor Rockwell.
  16.  
  17. If memory serves, STS-1 astronauts Young and Crippen paid tribute to those
  18. two men while in orbit.
  19.  
  20. -Brian
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