the nobility of the great explorers

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-02-01 09:50am

it takes a diferent kind of person to strap themselves onto a tank of liquid hydrogen and hurtle themself into space. knowing the risks involevd they do so anyway for the betterment of humanity. lets just take a moment of our time and pay our respect.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-01 09:55am

True guts, really. To take the risk of never again returning to Earth, risking life for knowledge.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-01 10:06am

sure, but is there a special reason to do that today? some explorer day or something? the day the chalenger exploded?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-02-01 10:07am

salm wrote:sure, but is there a special reason to do that today? some explorer day or something? the day the chalenger exploded?

The Columbia was just lost with it's entire crew.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-01 10:19am

Stormbringer wrote:
salm wrote:sure, but is there a special reason to do that today? some explorer day or something? the day the chalenger exploded?
The Columbia was just lost with it's entire crew.

holy moly. read that just after posting this...

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-02-01 03:12pm

I feel horrible for the families of the crew and also for the shuttle engineers at NASA. They must be feeling terrible right now.