In Memory of the Columbia Shuttle.

[Iwant2bafencer]

It's very tragic news to hear of the shuttle going down this morning. (If some of you have not heard or read of it this is a decent report on it. http://dailynews.attbi.com/cgi-bin/n...spaceshuttledc )
It hits a little harder I guess you could say for me. The Challenger Shuttle went down on January 28, 1986 which is the day after I was born (same year). Now the Columbia has been lost mere days after the 28th. In the above mentioned report, they say the seven mebers aboard the shuttle held a minute of silence in memory of the Challenger Shuttle.

The Columbia was NASA's oldest shuttle, being buit in 1981. It's passengers include: Commander Rick Husband (US), Pilot William McCool (US), Payload Commander Michael Anderson (US), Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla (India) , Mission Specialist David Brown (US), Mission Specialist Laurel Clark (US), and Israeli Payload Specialist Ilan Raymon.

Each member will be greatly missed by All, and the families with be in many hearts and prayers, including mine.


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Carpe Diem
Ad Asha

[Repechage]

It's a terrible tragedy. Every astronaut in the corps is a truly remarkable person, and the Columbia was the first space shuttle to go into orbit. It was, I believe, due to be retired soon.

[JEC]

Originally posted by Iwant2bafencer
...Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla (India) ...

Dr. Chawla was a US citizen who was born in India.

[Iwant2bafencer]

Aye, that's true. Sorry, I should have clarified that. Thanks JEC.

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Carpe Diem
Ad Asha

[Zelda]

I totally missed this on the news. I will always remember watching Challenger break up as it was my 8th birthday and my parents had let me watch the take off before I went to school. Its a tragedy that some many lives and so much scientific endevour in the experiments they were carrying out have been lost. I know one of the experiments they were running was looking at how spiders weave webs in a weightless environment....my Alma Mater was involved in that one.

[magma]

well, i'm a lot older than you, i remember when it went down, i was sitting in the living room of a friends house during a discussion meeting and we were all upset over the whole thing, and people kept trying to figure it out based on casuality, and i just gave up with the whole thing and went home. take care kids, what, by the way did anyone discover about the spider webs? anything?



love,
mom

[Purple Fencer]

I was driving to USC to set up my sales table at the Linkmeyer Invitational when I heard. I'm just speechless...that makes 21 known losses in manned space flight (don't forget the Russians lost 4 people)

[Repechage]

Originally posted by JEC
Dr. Chawla was a US citizen who was born in India.

And apparently, having been an Indian citizen until she was naturalized, is also being mourned in India as the first Indian-born astronaut, so her death is a loss for two nations.

[Spanky]

most of isreal is in mourning too. the fatalistic among the folk here, say it had to happen when an israeli was on board...

there will be a ceremony town later...i'll prolly go. i personally grieve for all the lost, and for the effects this will have on future manned missions to space.

not a good day.