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- From: orly@aludra.usc.edu (Mr. Nitro Plastique)
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- Subject: Re: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:38:10 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- I was in my 8th grade physics class when our principal went on the P.A. system
- and told us the news. We wee sent home early (about 12:30 E.S.T.) When I got
- home, my Dad didn't even know about it, and I told him to turn on the VCR to
- tape any channel, he asked me what happened. He couldn't believe it either.
- Now that I'm a junio studying Aerospace Engineeing at USC, I know that the
- Challenger accident told us that NASA and ou technology is not pefect, and it
- never will be. We learned fom our mistakes on Jan. 28, 1986, but we still have
- alot to lean before space flight will ever be a outine part of all our lives.
- We learn fom cas accidents, plane accidents, and home accidents, and there is
- always a small chance that something will go wong sooner or later.
- Unfortunately, for the STS-26 crew, it happened sooner.
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- Victor R. Orly
- (orly@aludra.usc.edu)
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- |Victor R. Orly | "Try to imagine all life as you know it, |
- |aka "Mr. Nitro Plastique" | stopping instantaneously, and every molecule |
- |Univ. of Southern California | in your body exploding at the speed of light"|
- |Internet: orly@aludra.usc.edu| -Egon Spengler, from "Ghostbusters" |
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