From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   We are coming up on the worst week in the history of manned space   
   flight.   
      
   At 2330 GMT on January 27, 1967, Gus Grisson, Ed White and Roger   
   Chafee were killed when a fire broke out  in the Apollo 1 command   
   module (capsule).  The cause has never been officially determined,   
   although many causal contributing factor were identified.   
      
   At 1628.73 GMT on January 28, 1986, Dick Scobee, Michael Smith,   
   Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnick, Ron McNair, Christa McAuliffe and   
   Gregory Jarvis were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke up   
   73 seconds after launch.  The apparent cause was the failure of an   
   O-ring on one of the solid rocket boosters, which caused a failure in   
   the external fuel tank which resulted in aerodynamic instability of   
   the shuttle resulting in its breakup.   
      
   At approximately 1359.37 on February 1, 2003, Rick Husband, William   
   McCool, Mike Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and   
   Laurel Clark were killed when the space shuttle Columbia broke up   
   during descent.  The apparent cause was failure of the left wing due   
   to loss of its thermal protection after a segment of the external fuel   
   tank's insulation fell, striking the wing.   
      
   Although over a span of 36 years, the memorial of these three   
   accidents fall within 6 days of each other.   
      
   Fifteen Americans, one Israeli and one Indian were killed in these   
   three accidents.  Many look at athletes, actors and musical performers   
   as idols and even heroes, but these 17 should be remembered as true   
   heroes and all of us should attempt to emulate them, or encourage our   
   childern and grandchildren to do so.   
      
   Love them, honor them and never forget them..   
      
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   - dillon  I am not invalid   
      
   An object's desireability to a dog is directly   
   proportional to its desireability to another dog.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)