This is far from a pointless fact, it's serious. April 5th on this day, Astronaut Manley Lanier ''Sonny'' Carter Jr. Died on a NASA buisness trip, his commercial aircraft Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Flight 2311. Flight 2311 killed 23 people including former US senator John Tower the crash also killed all 3 pilots, the plane crashed during it's final approach. Sonny flew as Mission Specialist on STS-33 where we did an EVA with the space shuttle Discovery. Sonny was scheduled to fly on STS-42 as Mission Specialist.
RIP Sonny some of us never heard of you as an astronaut, but we have now and we greave for you.