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Old January 19th 11, 10:53 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Default More bad luck for Discovery

On Jan 19, 3:00*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 1/18/2011 9:03 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:

Does the flight have some sort of curse on it?


Between that and the shooting of the congresswoman whose husband is
commanding the last planned mission, you would almost think so.
That must have been a pretty severe bicycle crash to break his hip; I
doubt if the doctors are going to okay him for flight in time for the
Discovery mission, particularly since he was planned to be the chief EVA
astronaut.


Steve Bowen replaces injured Tim Kopra for STS-133 flight:http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=32520

Pat


Just 5 more to replace the entire crew.