"DSK" wrote in message
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Bill McKee wrote:
It was still lifting, and maybe they got old and just forgot the "that".

There has only been one space shuttle which blew up on lift-off, and it
wasn't the first one. I guess if there's been one, you could call it "the
first" if you wanted to imply more were inevitably going to blow up.

The first shuttle launch was the beginning of a safe & successful mission.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/.../columbia.html

DSK


Maybe the person shoud have written
'They can not remember the first space shuttle that blew up.' Read for
meaning also.