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Old April 29th 08, 02:04 PM posted to sci.space.history
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South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon has been admitted to hospital
with severe back pains caused by her rough return voyage to Earth,
officials said Tuesday.

So the landing was pretty rough, even with a nominal retrorocket burn
and nominal parachute
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Old April 29th 08, 03:30 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"M" wrote in message
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South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon has been admitted to hospital
with severe back pains caused by her rough return voyage to Earth,
officials said Tuesday.

So the landing was pretty rough, even with a nominal retrorocket burn
and nominal parachute


Let the law suits begin.


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Old April 29th 08, 04:36 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"M" wrote in message
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South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon has been admitted to hospital
with severe back pains caused by her rough return voyage to Earth,
officials said Tuesday.

So the landing was pretty rough, even with a nominal retrorocket burn
and nominal parachute


Let the law suits begin.


Which will go nowhere I'm sure.




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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:30:55 +0000, Alan Erskine wrote:

"M" wrote in message
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South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon has been admitted to hospital
with severe back pains caused by her rough return voyage to Earth,
officials said Tuesday.

So the landing was pretty rough, even with a nominal retrorocket burn
and nominal parachute


Let the law suits begin.


Which reminds me - is it still true that astronauts can't get life
insurance? I believe that was true in the 60s. I may have picked
this up from watching FTETTM or some such other reputable source...

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Old April 30th 08, 03:46 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Fevric J Glandules writes:


Which reminds me - is it still true that astronauts can't get life
insurance? I believe that was true in the 60s. I may have picked
this up from watching FTETTM or some such other reputable source...


Everything can be had, for enough $. Life Magazine paid for the originals
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Which reminds me - is it still true that astronauts can't get life
insurance? I believe that was true in the 60s. I may have picked
this up from watching FTETTM or some such other reputable source...


It's not part of the benefits package NASA employees get?
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Old April 30th 08, 06:44 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:20:13 GMT, Fevric J Glandules
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:30:55 +0000, Alan Erskine wrote:

"M" wrote in message
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South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon has been admitted to hospital
with severe back pains caused by her rough return voyage to Earth,
officials said Tuesday.

So the landing was pretty rough, even with a nominal retrorocket burn
and nominal parachute


Let the law suits begin.


Which reminds me - is it still true that astronauts can't get life
insurance? I believe that was true in the 60s. I may have picked
this up from watching FTETTM or some such other reputable source...


The NASA astronauts (not active members of the military or seconded
from another country) have the same kind of life insurance Dryden
research test pilots and every other civilian employee of the
government has. It's called FEGLI, Federal Employees Group Life
Insurance. It wasn't new in 1962, when my husband elected it when he
hired on at Dryden. The military astronauts have SGLI, Servicemember
Group Life Insurance, as do all other member of the military.

I shouldn't say they all have this, as it's optional. It's just cheap
term life insurance. There is also a NASA employee's association that
offers insurance, mostly for dependents. It, too, is optional.

In addition, the family of anyone who dies on duty gets a nice
tax-free annuity. Spouses get it for life or until remarriage and
children get it until they're 18 or, maybe, until they're out of
college.

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Old May 6th 08, 03:12 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:44:32 -0700, Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
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[snip life insurance info]

Thanks, Mary.

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