![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Feb. 1st, 2003 11:10 am
(no subject)
I saw her birth in 1981, her first mission. And now I've seen her death, her last mission. And I'm in tears.
As I've said before, I have always been very wrapped up in the space program. I will never walk among the stars myself, but I have lived vicariously through those who do, watching them take the baby steps that will take our race outward. And when they are hurt, I am hurt.
I am hopeful, however, that we learned from the last such incident, that the space program will not stop. Because the fact remains that when you take risks, there is danger, and you cannot hide from that danger.
In the names of Challenger's crew, we went back up there. In the name of Columbia's crew, we must do it again.
But we must do it better. There has always been a plan for a next-generation shuttle. I think it's time we build her.
As I've said before, I have always been very wrapped up in the space program. I will never walk among the stars myself, but I have lived vicariously through those who do, watching them take the baby steps that will take our race outward. And when they are hurt, I am hurt.
I am hopeful, however, that we learned from the last such incident, that the space program will not stop. Because the fact remains that when you take risks, there is danger, and you cannot hide from that danger.
In the names of Challenger's crew, we went back up there. In the name of Columbia's crew, we must do it again.
But we must do it better. There has always been a plan for a next-generation shuttle. I think it's time we build her.