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Scott, you are right - it was Christa , the school teacher. Sally Ride was a pilot. Again , the joke : "Where did Christa McCaulif spend her summer vacation?" Answer: "All over Florida". I think that fiasco ended the dillatante space program, not that Christa did anything wrong, but that when it gets serious, the hard core players die and nobody expects any diffrenert, but when a civilian gets it, it looks bad, just like the Wakulla Too Project where they tried to dive slobs like Jil and her husband and a band of homeless misfits and gearless waifs who had no business being there, and then killed some poor old guy because they don't konw how to run a dive operation. Forget that they got nothing at all done. If one of use gets killed or bent doing ridiculous distances and severely abbreviated in water decompressions it is not going to be a big mystery or some shocking event, as we ar the pros and we hav been doign it for yeears, and we know the risks. Obviously, publicity seeking dillatantes who are also pathetic bowls of jello have no business being there, and serve only as bad exmaples and draw unwanted negative publicity to the game. To make matters worse, we have these strokes, led by Jill, lying about the whole thing, and then getting wacked doing weenie dives on a constant PPO2 CCR - pathetic, pathetic , pathetic. Scott Migaldi wrote: > > >From: Barbara Peterson <nocturne_cvs@ya*.co*> > >To: cavers@cavers.com > >Subject: Re: Bent Jill > >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:42:51 -0800 (PST) > > > > > > >As for Sally Ride, she was not a dillettante who had > >forced her way onto the shuttle in a position of > >power. She was a mission specialist, a public > >relations stunt, sure, if you like, but since she was > >a passenger and not in charge of piloting the shuttle > >or using substandard material to design/build the > >shuttle, to even equate her to Jill Heinerth is foolish. > > > > Sall RIde was a very well qualified shuttle mission specialist who earned > her way into the program. "Trey" must have meant Christa McCaulif (sp?) who > was the teacher that blew up on the Challenger. That was definetly a > publicity stunt. "Trey's" joke makes sense if he meant Christa. > > FYI here is a short paragraph on Sally Ride: > > Advertisement > > Sally Ride: Third Woman in Space > > June 18, 1983 > > ENCINO, CALIFORNIA > > The United States has had many "firsts" in space, but getting the first > woman into orbit isn't one of them. Sally Ride, the first American woman in > space, went into orbit on June 18, 1983, 20 years after the Soviet Union's > Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space and less than one year > after the Soviet Union's Svetlana Savitskaya became the second. > > Ride, a 32-year-old physicist from Encino, California, however, opened the > door for American women to participate in space exploration, and several > have been in orbit since her first journey. > > Ride, an expert in working the space shuttle's robot arm, was in charge of > deploying and retrieving the SPAS-1 satellite, a task she successfully > performed. It was the first time the robot arm had been used. > > Following the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Ride served on the > presidential commission that investigated the disaster. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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