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  2. From: me_s420@king.ac.uk (Chris Welch)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  4. Subject: Re: An early toast
  5. Date: 23 Jan 1993 12:29:58 GMT
  6. Organization: Kingston University
  7. Lines: 42
  8. Message-ID: <1jrdo6INN931@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>
  9. References: <1993Jan21.175300.13484@bradford.ac.uk>
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  12.  
  13. : :  "Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee,
  14. : :   Smith. Gone, but not forgotten."
  15.  
  16. : I'll join you in that, adding only the four(?) russians whose names I can
  17. : never remember.
  18.  
  19. "And also one other american and one other russian who are sometimes 
  20.  overlooked but who, nevertheless, IMHO deserve being remembered. So, for
  21.  sake of completeness we have..."
  22.  
  23. January 27, 1967    Chaffee, Roger         Killed in flash fire during training
  24.                     Grissom, Virgil        in Apollo 1.
  25.                     White, Edward
  26.  
  27. January 28, 1986    Jarvis, Gregory        Killed in explosion of Challenger on
  28.                     McAuliffe, Christa     STS 51-L.
  29.                     McNair, Ronald     
  30.                     Onizuka, Ellison
  31.                     Resnik, Judith
  32.                     Scobee, Francis
  33.                     Smith, Michael
  34.                           
  35. March 23, 1961      Bondarenko, Valentin    Died in pressure chamber fire.
  36.  
  37. April 24, 1967      Komarov, Vladimir       Died during Soyuz 1 re-entry when
  38.                                             parachute failed to deploy properly.
  39.                                             First person to die on a space
  40.                                             mission.
  41.  
  42. June 30, 1971       Dobrovolsky, Georgy     Died during Soyuz-11 re-entry when 
  43.                     Patsayev, Viktor        pressure equalisation valve opened.
  44.                     Volkov, Vladislav
  45.  
  46. November 15, 1967   Adams, Michael          X-15 test pilot killed during 191st
  47.                                             flight. Only X-15 fatality.
  48.  
  49.  
  50. --
  51.            |                      Chris Welch - The Urban Spaceman     
  52. _______   | |   _______                me_s420@uk.ac.kingston
  53. | ooo |  /| |\  | ooo |      
  54. | ooo | |/ ^ \| | ooo |  "Second star on the right, straight on till morning.
  55.