[buffyt]

Glad we don't stop all cars from driving on roads and highways for a year or two every time there is a major wreck or death on the highway...... Life is fragile, handle with care and prayer. But you have to go on.....

[BellStar]

Fly NASA fly!

[leadpenny]

I doubt it. Between the NASA bureaucracy and political risk to the sitting President, we may have seen the last Shuttle flight already.

[John W]

The history of manned space flight 1970-2004 makes what happened 1960-1969 all the more amazing.

[billorites]

You wouldn't get me up in that thing.

[greasepaint]

Very sad, that Nasa astronauts no longer possess
the courage needed to fly to the Hubble Space Telescope.

[Samwise]

ping

[benjaminjjones]

It was the second fatal accident in 113 shuttle missions.

That's what, a 1.7% accident rate?

With something as complicated as the shuttle, and considering it's pretty much just a huge bomb, which, when working properly, the explosion is controlled and directed out the tail nozzle, I think it's pretty remarkable.

GodSpeed!

[petercooper]

[Flightdeck]

Go manned space flight!