[TexasBarak]

A most appropriate post! Heinlein himself would say that we shouldn't let this stop us, but should instead expand and concentrate our efforts on more efficient spaceflight.
And, as an aside, I'm so glad that we have George W. Bush as our leader right now- a man more likely to say "We must not quit, but instead accelerate our efforts, to honor their memory", than "this isn't safe, and it's too expensive, and I"m shutting it down".

[tallhappy]

A most appropriate post! Heinlein himself would say that we shouldn't let this stop us, but should instead expand and concentrate our efforts on more efficient spaceflight.

I think Heinlein would say this is a wake up call. That we have become complacent about space and that this sad incident can kick start us again to beging progressing in space use.

17 years between such disasters is not bad (small consolation). 17 years and the same model, same tech, no progress is not good.

These great heros who've perished never die in vain.

Yet in our vanities we can not always recognize all their gifts. Let's try not to do that.

[Luis Gonzalez]

We go on.

It's what we have to do, it's what they would ask of us.

We go on.