Saturday, February 01, 2003


Columbia joins Challenger and Apollo 1

Mom just woke me up to tell me that the Space Shuttle Columbia has exploded upon landing. Why am I always asleep when these things happen and why do they keep happening? I can answer the second one for usre, but still...

"Another one?!" was my reaction and this is a mix of emotions here. I was too young when Challenger exploded but we studied the whole thing quite a bit years later in 6th grade. That was on take-off and we knew what happened. Now we have it on landing (and another one named "C" and both lifted off in the month of Jan) and there's no black box to tell us what went wrong.

I hope NASA continues flying after this cuz it's be a shame to have 3 disasters kill a program. In 40+ years, they've only had 3 deadly accidents- far better than any airline I know of, and this stuff is FAR more dangerous. I really do hope they find out what happened and that the families will be alright and comforted. May God rest these 7 souls.
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