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  • Al WordCMP en to skip Mars flight

    From Snidely@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 19 23:43:58 2020
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    Strike Al Worden from the passenger list for the next manned Mars
    flight. The Apollo 15 CMP died of a stroke on March 18, at age 88.

    <URL:https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-statement-on-apollo-astronaut-al-worden>

    Hail, and farewell!

    /dps

    --
    Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence
    went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his
    precious heavy water.
    _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean

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  • From Snidely@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 20 19:30:15 2020
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    [Sorry -- musta been slippery fingers in the original post]

    Snidely submitted this gripping article, maybe on Thursday:
    Strike Al Worden from the passenger list for the next manned Mars flight.
    The Apollo 15 CMP died of a stroke on March 18, at age 88.

    <URL:https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-statement-on-apollo-astronaut-al-worden>

    Hail, and farewell!

    /dps

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    Ieri, oggi, domani

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