Re: NASA ADMINISTRATOR STATEMENT REGARDING THE TRAGIC LOSS OF AVIATION PIONEER A. SCOTT CROSSFIELD

"Ami Silberman" (silber@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:12:41 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm really late in responding to this, but I have to say that Pat
picked a really good hero. Scott Crossfield was a wonderful person.
He was a real gentleman and a great engineer and a pleasure to know
and work with. I really liked and admired him.

I knew nothing whatsoever about what he was like personally

Really great. Sharp, funny, sometimes a bit self-deprecating, a real
gentleman. He was a lot like my father in that last; they were much
of an age.

He's interviewed on the Discovery Channel (Canada) series "Rocket Science,
and the DVD has an extended interview which is quite good. (There are a
number of good interviews with Kraft, Kranz, Lovell, Schirra, Bean, and
others.)

A wonderful documentary series, and the DVD is well, well worth it,
especially as they sold it to me at Ad Astra for $20 Cdn, no tax.
:-)

3 discs, too.

Andre


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