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Still trying to come to terms with the loss of the Columbia earlier today. I was the sort of kid who borrowed the worn old copy of the shuttle's pilot's manual from the library, and always had it checked out even after memorizing the whole thing. And manned spaceflight has always seemed to me to be a far more important thing than, well, almost anything else. For reasons I won't go into here and now.
( long/rantCollapse )Alright, this has turned from an elegy into a rant, and that's not what I wanted to do. Let it just suffice to say that I mourn for those who have fallen today, and would like us to carry on their work where they left off, remembering them in our actions and not just in words.
