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msmemory_archive) wrote2003-02-02 02:36 pm
msmemory_archive) wrote2003-02-02 02:36 pm
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When the Challenger accident happened, I was still working at HDI with Susan.
She came into the ladies room, and said to me through the door, "Challenger just blew up!" Thinking she was just using a funny phrasing, I said, "Right, it was supposed to launch today." "No," said Sue, "I mean it exploded."
I remember crowding into the lunchroom to watch, and rewatch, the tape. And fearing then it would be the end of the government allowing humans to go into space in my lifetime, or my children's. Which, obviously, it wasn't. Now I fear that again, that they'll bring down the ISS crew, and say that it's too risky to let people go to space, or to plan an interplanetary mission. When instead, we should be planning more, and technologically superior missions, not fewer, cheaper ones. Earth needs to act like a single, unified planet, and get out there and see the rest of the universe, not sit here sniping and dividing and planning wars.
She came into the ladies room, and said to me through the door, "Challenger just blew up!" Thinking she was just using a funny phrasing, I said, "Right, it was supposed to launch today." "No," said Sue, "I mean it exploded."
I remember crowding into the lunchroom to watch, and rewatch, the tape. And fearing then it would be the end of the government allowing humans to go into space in my lifetime, or my children's. Which, obviously, it wasn't. Now I fear that again, that they'll bring down the ISS crew, and say that it's too risky to let people go to space, or to plan an interplanetary mission. When instead, we should be planning more, and technologically superior missions, not fewer, cheaper ones. Earth needs to act like a single, unified planet, and get out there and see the rest of the universe, not sit here sniping and dividing and planning wars.
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