Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Let's make a place for Robert Heinlein on the Space Shuttle Message-ID: <2334@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 09:11:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2334 Posted: Mon Jun 20 09:11:00 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 04:20:36 EDT Lines: 14 From: Robert Elton MaasIt 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.)