Posted
2/01/2011 10:27:00 PM
by Douglas
Eight years ago today is a day I will never forget. It's not every day a space ship on its way home doesn't come home, but for anyone connected with STS-107, it's a lot more personal than
that. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, and we still don't have a reasonable direction fro the future of the American space program. The current program of record is hanging on by a thread with nothing viable waiting in the wings to replace it. But that doesn't matter today. Today is about the few brave souls that got the chance to do what only a handful of the billions of people on this green earth will get the chance to do, and didn't get to come home and tell anyone about it.
Here's a great
picture commemorating those that died in the American space program.
Ad Astra Per Aspera - Semper Exploro!