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Big Bird

Should we add that Caroll Spinney was supposed to go on this ship, as Big Bird, before the mission was abandoned cause the puppet proved to be too big? -- 68.163.108.150 (talk) 11:42, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Glaring omission...

Please include a list of passengers who died on the final flight. 63.152.66.105 (talk) 15:51, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you go to the article about the final flight it lists all of the crew. STS-51-L AlistairMcMillan (talk) 17:54, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]