Hope God helps us

Alan --
Hmmm it's good to know they re-evaluated things. Yea I think perhaps the Columbia incident is more abstract. Challenger had all this PR push behind it at the time, even the "first teacher in space" bit, that was supposed to score some points for Reagan.

Jeff -- I don't find your posts funny in the least. Show your real intelligence or keep it on chibinet.

This was actually planned by the government sabotage commity in order to take the media attention away from the real breaking news...... Bush's African Aids relief proposal!!! I mean honestly guys, this is outrageous. We can't be just helping random black people for no reason.

I actually heard one of the more intelligent journalist ask about that "management culture." The reply was something to the tune of "we radically changed how we did business so that anyone who had a hand in the project had the ultimate power of being able to stop a launch." Sounds like they took reforms seriously. (Most journalists asked questions that had already been thouroghly(sp) answered, it was quite annoying.)

Its been strange here, lots of people are kinda shook up by it, but not like DEEPLY. I think, since this is quite possibly the first major national tragedy since 9/11 that we're somehow less fragile than we once were. I was a little squirt when Challenger happened, but I keep being told how deeply everyone was moved by what happened. I just don't see the same thing with this. It could be that Columbia was a mere dot at the head of a streak in the sky the entire decent, and into when it broke up. You can see Challenger on the pad, see it rise to space, then see it clearly explode. Its a bit more jarring. 2cents.