Re: Official 'Ambassadors of Exploration' list

From: Scott Furtaw (sfurtaw_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:35:29 -0400

Jim-

Thanks for posting the list. I don't agree with including ASTP but not
Skylab. I would think it would be both or neither. But you're right, the
line must be drawn.

> You have to draw a line somewhere, this is as good as any for the first
pass
> through.

Does this imply that there may be more?

Scott Furtaw
In Memoriam: The Astronaut/Cosmonaut Memorial Web Site
www.astronautmemorial.net
"Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:LOvLc.12739$WP1.4196@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> Official 'Ambassadors of Exploration' list
>
> The list includes 26 living astronauts, Cronkite, and 11 deceased
astronaut
> honorees.
>
> Looks like it includes all orbital flights through Apollo-17, PLUS ASTP in
> July 1975,
> but not backup crews, nor the Skylab missions aboard Apollo spacecraft
> (1973-1974),
> and includes the Apollo-204 fire fatalities (Chaffee) but not those killed
> on aircraft accidents on
> official business (Freeman, See & Bassett [Gemini-9 crew], Williams
> [original LMP of Apollo-12 crew]),
> nor X-15 pilots with astronaut wings, nor duty-related deaths in the USAF
> MOL program.
>
> You have to draw a line somewhere, this is as good as any for the first
pass
> through.
>
>

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