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Wasn't Florida glad that Space Shuttle Discovery was used on their quarter instead of SS Columbia?



 
 
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Old October 11th 05, 11:05 PM
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Default Wasn't Florida glad that Space Shuttle Discovery was used on their quarter instead of SS Columbia?

Sure, the Florida quarter came out in 2004 and it might have been in
the late part of the year, but you can be sure the die for it was cast
sometime in 2003, before the tragic disintegration of Columbia over
Texas...and Arizona...and California......

If the die had of had Columbia on it instead of Discovery, do my
friends in these groups think the quarter would have been recalled?
Just curious.

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Old October 12th 05, 12:49 AM
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Should've been a Saturn V.


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Old October 12th 05, 03:14 AM
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Should've been a Saturn V.


Hate to say it, but the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were
transient and short-lived. The shuttle has had a much longer presence
in Florida and will be America's first long-term commitment to a
specific spacecraft and represents the present space exploration effort
(as of when that coin was put out anyway).

-A.L.

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Old October 12th 05, 10:59 PM
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Tim K. wrote:
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Should've been a Saturn V.


Hate to say it, but the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were
transient and short-lived. The shuttle has had a much longer presence
in Florida and will be America's first long-term commitment to a
specific spacecraft and represents the present space exploration effort
(as of when that coin was put out anyway).


True, but Apollo went somewhere.


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Old October 12th 05, 11:18 PM
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Tim K. wrote:
"Andrew Lotosky" wrote in message
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Tim K. wrote:
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Should've been a Saturn V.


Hate to say it, but the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were
transient and short-lived. The shuttle has had a much longer presence
in Florida and will be America's first long-term commitment to a
specific spacecraft and represents the present space exploration effort
(as of when that coin was put out anyway).


True, but Apollo went somewhere.


And Apollo was far more historically significant in the
broader scope of things. Shuttle will soon be gone,
relegated to a paragraph in history texts at most.
Florida's quarter should have celebrated Apollo/Saturn.
But since so many Floridians didn't come from Florida,
making the state disconnected from its true place in
history, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that it
came up with the wrong design.

- Ed Kyle

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Old October 13th 05, 09:15 PM
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Except Apollo 1, wasn't it Tim? That's the one where Virgil Grissom
and the other astronauts on that flight were sacrificed to the Gods as
were the crew members of SS Columbia and SS Challenger. All in the
name of 'progress'.

But sometimes you have to take 2 steps back to take 1 step forward.

SincereQuestioner

Apollo 1 astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil Grissom,
Lt. Col. Edward White II and Naval Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee.


Tim K. and Andrew Lotosky invoked the sad memories of the Apollo Space
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Tim K. wrote:
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Should've been a Saturn V.



Hate to say it, but the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were
transient and short-lived. The shuttle has had a much longer presence
in Florida and will be America's first long-term commitment to a
specific spacecraft and represents the present space exploration effort
(as of when that coin was put out anyway).




True, but Apollo went somewhere.

 




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