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TIL that beginning in 1984, NASA administrator James M. Begg, who feared the number 13, stopped the sequential numbering of Space Shuttle flights in order to avoid that number. After STS9, the next shuttle flight was numbered 41-B using an arcane system based on the fiscal year.

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