[FPSPACE] JimO's article..a question about it (Guns in space)

[David C. Fowler]

Chuck Brady, last summer:

http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20060727/news/local/072806Brady.html



On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:30:08 -0500, "Peter Pesavento" <pjp961 at svol.net> wrote:
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> Can you expand upon the following paragraph with more comments?  I haven't
> heard this before.  What time frame did this event take place with a
> threatened suicide?  Before 2000?  After 2000?
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> Perhaps a year or so ago, nobody would have raised an eyebrow over "trained
> spacefarers" being able to grab a gun at will, for whatever reason they felt
> like. But in the wake of the past year's tragic violence
> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20167011/>  involving professional astronauts
> and space center veterans, and in light of stories now surfacing over
> psychological crises on past missions (including one threatened suicide that
> the mission commander took very seriously), the open access to such lethal
> hardware needs reappraisal. 
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> Thanks in advance.
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