bill@dayton.UUCP (Bill Argyros) (01/29/86)
I am very glad to find that I am not the only one who knows that this is no reason to stop space exploration. The problem must be found and corrected before any more manned flights, but this will happen. It always has before. "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect" I only wish the President had given credit for the first and last lines from the poem he quoted: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings, Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sunsplit clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft theough footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. John Gillespie Magee, Jr. The Dream is Still Alive. -- UUCP: ihnp4!rosevax!dayton!bill Bill Argyros ATT : (612) 375-6651 Dayton Hudson Department Store Company 700 on the Mall Mpls, Mn. 55408