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Topic: Jake Garn & Don Lind to celebrate Astronomy Day
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Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 05-04-2006 01:41 PM
   
Astronauts Jake Garn (STS-51D) and Don Lind (STS-51B) will celebrate Astronomy Day this weekend according to the following news item:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635204766,00.html This will be a day to "Keep an eye on the sky" according to the following news item:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_3778329 Further information about these two former astronauts can be found at the following site:
http://www.spacefacts.de/english/bio_ast.htm [This message has been edited by Astro Bill (edited May 04, 2006).] |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 05-04-2006 08:55 PM
Ironic that Don Lind and Jake Garn are appearing together. Back when Garn flew on 51-D, he was criticized for using his Congressional rank to "bump" long-waiting "real astronauts" like Don Lind (selected in 1966), who had waited 19 years for his first and only flight on 51-B. Apparently Lind himself didn't hold a grudge.Oddly, those who lamented Garn's queue-jumping never mentioned all of the more junior astronauts from the selection groups of 1967, 1969 and 1978 that also flew before Lind. ------------------
John Charles
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