Columbia
Cause of Fiery Fall Is Unknown; Ship Was Fleet’s Oldest
(link above is to the New York Times)
February 1 is a day that no one can ever forget.
Just when it all seems so easy, and so routine, and a only few among us follow the space program with any regularity, something like this unfortunately happens. And it shows us that we live in a country where we can push the limits of our collective reach everyday and hardly even notice.
Would that today had stayed commonplace and boring — and spared seven exceptional lives.
Rest In Peace, crew of STS-107.
