teddybear4play
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The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on its descent on February 1, 2003. And of course, that harkens back to the explosion of the Challenger on January 28, 1986.
But as I was researching an essay I'm writing on the future challenges of the American space program, I came across this, and I don't believe I've heard it mentioned anywhere, at least not in conjunction with the Columbia: The three astronauts on board Apollo 1 — Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee — died in a launch pad test on January 27, 1967.
Three different disasters in three different stages of space travel: pre-launch, launch, reentry — and all three during the same calendar week.
What are the odds of this?
Whenever they get the shuttle program running again, something tells me they're just going to avoid flying altogether between Martin Luther King Day and Valentine's Day. That time of the year just seems to have something against space travel.
TB4p
But as I was researching an essay I'm writing on the future challenges of the American space program, I came across this, and I don't believe I've heard it mentioned anywhere, at least not in conjunction with the Columbia: The three astronauts on board Apollo 1 — Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee — died in a launch pad test on January 27, 1967.
Three different disasters in three different stages of space travel: pre-launch, launch, reentry — and all three during the same calendar week.
What are the odds of this?
Whenever they get the shuttle program running again, something tells me they're just going to avoid flying altogether between Martin Luther King Day and Valentine's Day. That time of the year just seems to have something against space travel.
TB4p
