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Subject: Let's make a place for Robert Heinlein on the Space Shuttle
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Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 09:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 20 09:11:00 1983
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From:  Robert Elton Maas 

It would be a shame if Heinlein died on the shuttle, thus marring our
perfect in-flight record (we lost some astronauts during training, and
thre during a fire onboard Apollo on ground, but none yet in space or
during actual launch or landing; Russians have been less fortunate).
But on the other hand it might be fitting for Heinlein to die in
space.  I think we ought to check his health first, and then really
think this out before we do it. But since he wrote the story about
just this sort of hack, persumably he had plenty of time to think
about it, and really does prefer dying in space to dying on Earth
never having been to space. -- Has he been asked if he still wants to
go to space even if it kills him? (However it would be a shame if he
died during ascent, thus never being to space alive, only as dead cargo.)