When I came back from breakfast at about 8:15 EST yesterday morning, I flipped on Fox News and said to myself "Oh cool! The Columbia is going to land". The first thing I heard was that "communication and RADAR CONTACT was lost at approximately 8:00". I knew then that they were gone.
I immediately popped T-160 tape in the VCR and hit record, then called a friend of mine, and my wife at work.
After spending all day listening to Fox, it struck me that they were just as incompetent as the networks when it came to the space program. They just don't have a clue about anything technical and, like the rest of the media, default to asking the "how did you feel?" questions over and over again.
I let the VCR run for about 8 hours, but in all that time there really wasn't one single piece of information that I didn't get first from FreeRepublic, and most of the good stuff on FR, they didn't even mention. Fox really embarassed themselves, and they're continuing on with the same crap this morning. You would think that they could find some new information from somewhere after eight full hours!
Well, I'm going off on a tangent again...
I'm not betting on the survival of the US manned space program after this. Mike is right. The left can't allow the shuttle program to succeed - it accuses them by it's success.
Did you know that the NASA budget is determined by the Health and Human Services/Veterans Affairs Committee or something like that? It used to be that Mikulsky [sp?] woman in charge of it...
Homeland Security has an unlimited budget, but America has no money for a manned space program...sheesh...