[Time is now]

And our other brave adventurers on Columbia.

[isthisnickcool]

Some pics I took in front of Johnson Center after Columbia disaster.

[Libertina]

I was at CPAC when that happended. Everyone was huddled around the few small TVS or walking around dazed...

[newzjunkey]

For me, Columbia's loss was far more horrifying. When Challenger was destroyed I was just a kid who didn't have the emotional growth to understand what the loss meant. It was abstract, intellectual knowledge that the shuttle exploded on launch.

With Columbia, I imagined knowing death was coming as you careened into the atmosphere as your craft broke up around you. I was one of those who, post launch as she orbited awaiting a fiery death, was fearful damage was underestimated by those NASA experts, engineers and scientists. When she was lost, I was shaken. That no indictments came, that even post Challenger, arrogance ruled is an incomprehensible horror.