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Thanks to an email from my Dad, I have this link to a short piece over at A Dog's Life about the shuttle tragedy.
I think it's entirely appropriate to mourn that people died (as it would be for any such situation; I'm a sucker for the sad news stories). I think it's appropriate to think they are heroes, as much as it is to think that of those who did not die, also. They have all braved the same risks; some won the toss, some lost it, but going into space is not yet commonplace, just as once other ways of travel that now are the norm, were very dangerous.
Oh, heck. They've written it better (and shorter) than I could already. Go read - or if you're sick of Columbia, don't go read. (If you're sick of Columbia, I hope you skipped on before you reached this line. Otherwise, I'm afraid I wasted your time.)
I think it's entirely appropriate to mourn that people died (as it would be for any such situation; I'm a sucker for the sad news stories). I think it's appropriate to think they are heroes, as much as it is to think that of those who did not die, also. They have all braved the same risks; some won the toss, some lost it, but going into space is not yet commonplace, just as once other ways of travel that now are the norm, were very dangerous.
Oh, heck. They've written it better (and shorter) than I could already. Go read - or if you're sick of Columbia, don't go read. (If you're sick of Columbia, I hope you skipped on before you reached this line. Otherwise, I'm afraid I wasted your time.)
