Aalice.206 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb Mon Dec 7 17:51:16 1981 awards President Reagan today pinned NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal, on Joe Engle and Richard Truly, and praised them for carrying out their major flight objectives, despite a short mission, on STS-2. In turn, Engle and Truly, gave Reagan a silver medal marking their flight, pictures of the mission, and an American flag they carried aboard with them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.