[riversarewet]

We need to stop sending these types of shuttles into space when they've now killed two entire crews.

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Huh! Two accidents in twenty years. How many Airlines have crashed and killed all of their passengers in the same amount of time? The surprise is not that we have lost two shuttles, but that we have not lost more. Getting anything into space is a dangerous mission and no amount of engineering will make it 100% safe.

We are only in the first two hours of this disaster, I think we should wait just a little bit before we assign blame, or attempt to fix what went wrong.

[revtown]

The shuttles seem to have a MTBF of 50 or so flights.
Not very good odds.

Time for a new design. Whether they send the current design up again or not.

[George W. Bush]

The surprise is not that we have lost two shuttles, but that we have not lost more.

Given the shuttle's inherent flaws, I couldn't agree more. I think you'll find in upcoming coverage there will be a lot of NASA people saying the same things I'm saying. It's time to finally fix the problem and not slap bandaids on it.

BTW, White House now saying it was impossible that terrorism or sabotage was involved.