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In article <SHAFER.91Jun22204020@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>, shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
|> In article <Jay.5841@deepthot.cary.nc.us> Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) writes:
|> 
|>    I saw the atronauts memorial while at KSC last week.  There were at
|>    least two, possibly three groups memorialized there I was not
|>    familiar with.  The Apollo 1 and Challanger astronauts I recognized.
|> 
|>    The ones I didn't recognize, I can't recall the names, but there
|>    was one involving one person, one involving two people, and a pentagram
|>    of stars.
|> 
|> The two people were Elliot See and Charlie Bassett, who died in a
|> MacDonnell parking lot after their T-38 clipped the corner of a
|> building in the fog in St. Louis (Lambert Field?).
|> 
|> The single person was another training accident and I don't recall the
|> name or circumstance, only that it involved a T-38.  I _believe_ that
|> the pentagram of stars refers to Cosmonaut deaths, since NASA only
|> claims to have lost 13 in space-related deaths (3 Apollo 1 + 7
|> Challenger + 2 STL + 1 ?).
|> --
|> Mary Shafer  shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov  ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
|>            NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
|>                      Of course I don't speak for NASA
|>             "Turn to kill, not to engage."  CDR Willie Driscoll
 


The single astronaut killed was Ted Freeman in 1964.  He sucked a snow goose into the air inlet of his T-38 as he was approaching here at Ellington Field or as it was at the time Ellington Air Force Base.  He was the first death in the astrounaut corps.