[Alberta's Child]

We gave up space travel when the political message became more important than the mission.

No disrespect to those who lost their lives that day, but the crew photo for that mission looked like the cover photo of a Federal EEOC enforcement manual.

Perhaps not coincidentally, so did the photo of the ill-fated Columbia mission years later:

[cripplecreek]

Better to have a few really good people going to space than a diversity roster.