Contact with Columbia Lost!

[Edan]

Didn't take long for someone to try and profit from this tragedy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2909709193&category=1469

"NASA Columbia Piece Acquired BEFORE Launch"

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Edan
Didn't take long for someone to try and profit from this tragedy:

"No one ever went broke understimating the good taste of the American public, " -- P.T.Barnum.

[Lancer]

I like to think of these people as spacefarers, the modern equivilent of the seafarers who set out into an unknown and dangerous ocean. Watching that shuttle come down like a meteor, pieces breaking off, streaking across a clear blue sky...God what a way to go. The old seafarers lost at sea died in seclusion, unheralded. These spacefarers went out in a blaze of glory that burned a path across the sky, rumbled the ground like an earthquake and seared the image of their passing into the lives of billions. They started on a couragous journey into space, but have gone so very much farther.

Explore the cosmos unto heaven itself, my dear heroes...and thank you.

[chequita guevara]

My sentiments exactly, Lancer.

[Az]

Didn't take long for someone to try and profit from this tragedy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...3&category=1469

"NASA Columbia Piece Acquired BEFORE Launch"

at least it's for a good cause, him going to colledge.




I can only hope they died quickly. and yes, this is one of the better ways to go. still, the pain of their wives/husbands and kids...

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Edan
Didn't take long for someone to try and profit from this tragedy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2909709193&category=1469

"NASA Columbia Piece Acquired BEFORE Launch"

I was just going to post this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3205207381&category=13904

"REAL NASA COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE TAIL"

edit: From http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/01/sec...tle/index.html

Vice President **** Cheney, who was spending the weekend hunting in Texas, was briefed on the disappearance Saturday morning and was watching television along with receiving official updates, a spokeswoman said.

Coincidence? OR CONSPIRACY?

[Az]

well, at least this one doesn't seem to be so excited about it.

"Show it to your children and grandchildren!"

[Lancer]

Yes Che, I watched that thing over and over, trying to come to terms with it in the beginning. I guess it was a shock certainly. At first it just looked tragic, and it certainly was. After a while a sense of deep admiration and respect came home. Those people didn't want to die like that today, but if your time was today then that was a fine and noble a way to go and today such a pretty day in Texas...

[Odin]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
My sentiments exactly, Lancer.

Same here.

[chequita guevara]

It's a beautiful day all across the South. A perfect day for landing.


How many shuttles does this leave us with?

Will the next launch be delayed, considering they have to replace the crew of the ISS?

[Sirotnikov]

I don't know.


There's something about the thought of dying by means of incinirating into thin air that... well... sends shivers down my spine.

I mean - there's nothing left of them. It's scary.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
How many shuttles does this leave us with?

3

[Az]

Actually, that would be glorious, Siro. exploding emidiately, without feeling pain, after struggling with the controls for a while.

To be remembered by everyone, as a small group of people, and Ramon would be remembered even individually.

While I strive to reach more recognition and respect through my life, It is only hardly possible.

[Eli]

How many shuttles does this leave us with?

As Lefty said, 3. Endeavor, Discovery and Atlantis.

[FrustratedPoet]

Dying in a spectacular way on world-wide TV isn't a good thing.