Social Scientist. v 14, no. 156 (May 1986) p. 55.


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space launch let alone a super sophisticated fail proof and invulnerable space weapons system. If the mission control computers could not sense the fate of the shuttle crew when orange flames were licking the liquid hydrogen fuel tanks, can SDI save the American 1 crew of the space ship Earth when the American ICBMs start on tlieir doomsday trajectories to 'win' a nuclear war ? The lesson'from the Florida sky was, if anything |Lhe explosion of the Star Wars myth. While paying tributes to the seven heroes of Challenger, let us hope that the lesson is not lost on anyone.



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