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Feb. 1st, 2003 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, I suppose everyone who would be reading this already knows what happened today. We lost our first-ever space shuttle, and all seven of the brave souls on board. I am quite saddened by this, and don't quite know what to say. People all over the place are posting tributes to the lives that were lost today...they all say it better than I do.
This immediately brings to mind the Challenger disaster, almost twenty years ago. It happened just about ths time of year, too, and it shocked the nation right down to its feet. There were no more shuttle missions for over two years, and the space program's never been the same since. NASA's never been quite able to get over it.
And now it's happened again. What's this going to do to the space program? At least there are still astronauts on the space station...which means, unless they want to use the Soyuz escape capsule, they're going to have to take the shuttle back up there pretty soon to bring them down again.
I want to see more space travel...more advanced ships. I want there to be colonies on the moon and Mars within my lifetime. Whether it will happen seems more and more in doubt.
This immediately brings to mind the Challenger disaster, almost twenty years ago. It happened just about ths time of year, too, and it shocked the nation right down to its feet. There were no more shuttle missions for over two years, and the space program's never been the same since. NASA's never been quite able to get over it.
And now it's happened again. What's this going to do to the space program? At least there are still astronauts on the space station...which means, unless they want to use the Soyuz escape capsule, they're going to have to take the shuttle back up there pretty soon to bring them down again.
I want to see more space travel...more advanced ships. I want there to be colonies on the moon and Mars within my lifetime. Whether it will happen seems more and more in doubt.
