Nasa vs. Nasa

[Jon Lebkowsky]

At 06:26 AM 7/3/97 -0700, James Hurd wrote:
>
>	 A number of people where killed on the space shuttle Challenger,
>because among other things, Ronald Reagan wanted to mention the "teacher
>in space" in his State-of-the-union speech that night. Many NASA
>scientists had great misgivings about the shuttle going up in that very
>cold weather.  I wonder who has done the most harm to kids, those
>represented at NASA.gov or NASA.com? Remember when the powers that be
>were trying to get counseling to every school kid who had witnessed the
>event on TV?  At least that horrible tragedy had some pedagogic value- the
>youth of America learned one very valuable lesson-- never trust the
>government. 

Or 'listen to the guys who built the thing.'
Jon Lebkowsky // jonl at onr.com

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