I think he just meant that it hasn’t sunk in yet. That it doesn’t seem real yet.
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God speed…
Michael P. Anderson, Payload Commander
David M. Brown, Mission Specialist
Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist
Laurel Clark, Mission Specialist
Ilon Ramon, Payload Specialist
Thank you for your service to all of us.
I don’t know, MEBuckner, but this
seemed a little flip to me.
If Blackeyes meant no offense, I apologize. I was in college when the Challenger blew up…it’s deja vu all over again, and as you can see from my location, going outside to watch a shuttle launch from my backyard or work is par for the course for me…
I know exactly what you mean, I was only 4 back then… this is horrible…
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/status.html
Moment my moment account from Nasa. (Regularly Updated.)
To be totally fair…
Space exploration is incredibly dangerous, not to mention precise. Each mission carries tremendous risk should one or two things go wrong. It isn’t so much of an impossibility for something like this to happen, and we all knew that eventually it would. NASA knew. The astronauts knew.
To not be mourning, I don’t know about. Maybe it has something to do with his empty feeling. I don’t want to get into it right now.
Does anyone know if they had families, wives, children, etc?
How horrible it must have been for the families, watching the shuttle bringing Mommy or Daddy home… 
I mean no offense to anyone in any post I’ve made in this thread or any others outisde of the Pit.
I’m just… I dunno, man.
I had just turned six. We were watching it in kindergarten. The teacher was sad, but all of us kids were thinking “Cool! Look at the colors!” In fact, that’s what I remember best about it. The bright blue sky, the rusty-red um…I forgot what the red part is, the shining white boosters and shuttle, the yellow and white clouds…
A sad, terrible day. My sympathies go out to the families of the lost astronauts.
Ron McNair (one of the astronauts killed on Challenger) was to have played his sax in orbit to be used on Jean Michel Jarre’s Rendevous. Jarre dedicated the album to the memory of the Challenger astronauts.
Uh, I hope that this doesn’t seem tacky, but I’d like to ask folks to click the petition link in my sig and sign the petition. Pretty soon idiots are going to start screaming that the space program’s too dangerous and should be abandoned. None of the astronauts would want that. NASA’s going to need all the support it can get in the coming months.
Thanks for the link. The press conference is scheduled for 11:30 EST. Anybody know if I can see (or at least hear) it on the Net? I don’t have Cable and Japanese TV probably won’t have the original English sound.
I can’t believe this has happened twice in my lifetime. I was 10 when The Challenger exploded; I too recall seeing it in school.
Rest in Peace, Columbia Crew. My thoughts & prayers for the families.
I was home from school when challenger blew apart. I watched on television. I was maybe nine. Same feeling of shock. This is terrible.
To say it was terrorists and play up peoples dumbest fears is downright irresponsible. This is a tragedy.
Keep in mind that, besides the possible health hazards, the main reason for telling people not to touch anything is that any fragment of the shuttle is evidence.
I realize that, just like the boys going over to the Middle East face the risk of death.
It still doesn’t mean you shrug off the loss of a human life because of inherent dangers…
Speechless…, and sad. Damn.
Don’t the crew have the ability to replace damaged tiles?
Here’s hoping the crew cabin survived long enough for them to escape.
Wow. What a thing to wake up to. I just turned off the news. None of the stations I watch are adding anything new. So now I’m just . . . sad. Like Slainte, I didn’t really think I would see something like this again. What a tragedy.
I think I understand, Blackeyes, we all deal with tragedy in our own way. I apologize for taking offense with how you deal with it.