Space Shuttle Is Missing

[Peaches]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Feb 1 2003, 03:15 PM
My thoughts go out to the families of those brave people who died today... people do not realize that traveling through space is STILL a very dangerous mission. Astronauts are indeed heros - they are very brave.

Of course I would go up tommorow if they let me.

It's like I told a friend of mine this AM when we first saw it break on the TV - as callous as it sounds, these people died doing what they wanted to be doing. Probably what they wanted to do from the time they were little kids. We're all going to die and I'd rather go doing something I love than die being out of my mind and spreading my own feces on the walls (not that I don't enjoy spreading my own feces on the walls...... )

It's the people they leave behind that you feel so sorry for My thoughts are with their friends and families during this time. The ones that died, I feel thankful for as if it weren't for their bravery, and those like them, we'd not know many of the things we know in science and space.

Hopefully this won't hinder the space program. More people will die in car accidents in GA in the next week than died today in the sky.