I guess you guys all heard about space shuttle Colombia crashing today. It almost reminds me of Challenger back in the 80s. I feel horrible for those astronauts...:(

:p you beat me to it.

Yea my gramma told me about that....thats really sad. :(

I heard from my friend. It's awful...
NASA's never lost anyone on the trip down...

If anyone is interested, the remaining shuttles are Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

That is wicked sad.... I feel bad for all the wives and children and everyone :crying:

it is very disturbing. America is already in eniugh stress. It is just liek the challenger. Did you know lance Bass was suppsoed to be on the space craft Columbia? i think it was this flight. Good thing they fired him from being able to go.

Yeah I've seen it on national news and local news as well. Someone woke me up to tell me about it.

its so sad....one of my neighbors went to school w/ david brown who was on the columbia..

It definately brings back memories og the Challenger explosion. It is especially sad hearing that woman, Laurel Clark saying how happy she was to be coming back home.

Yea, my dad told me about that, it's really sad. I feel bad for their families and friends...:(

I heard about it awhile ago.
It's truly sad, especially since it was only minutes from landing. :(

Originally posted by Jo's the bomb
I heard about it awhile ago.
It's truly sad, especially since it was only minutes from landing. :(


I agree:(

I heard about that. Very sad :(

I was watching the news coverage this afternoon. That's absolutely terrible. They were so close to landing, too. :(

I was in the third grade when Challenger exploded and I can remember the school patching the news updates through the intercom system. Ronald McNair was from a town 20 minutes from where I lived. The entire student body wrote letters to his wife and kids saying how sorrry we were that somethink like that happened. I even have a picture of his name that is in the monument at The Cape.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the 7 seven families of the astronauts; to the entire NASA family because this is also affected them; and to the Israeli nation who lost a national hero.

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aw it's so horrible what happened, i feel so bad! :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

We live five miles from Nacadoges and my sister found a metel piece of the ship and somethig that looked like a man's golden wedding band Which got melted pretty bad and the piece of metel is huge in our back yard...The police are still here. Everytime i think about it i feel so sick.
It's a sad thing that has happened. I can't even imagine what it was like when they told the families that their loved ones that the cuolmbia was lost and their were no survivors... I hope that the crew did not suffer and i hope they died right away and did not feel no pain at all. I am also glad that thay fuflled their dreams of going into space...

RIP Columbia Crew....
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Originally posted by Rudy and Kenny4eva
it is very disturbing. America is already in eniugh stress. It is just liek the challenger. Did you know lance Bass was suppsoed to be on the space craft Columbia? i think it was this flight. Good thing they fired him from being able to go.


Lance Bass was NOT scheduled to be on Columbia. He had a contract with the Russians. He was going up AND down with the Russians. At no time would he have been on the Columbia.

I do agree it reminds me of Challenger. I mean, it was just 5 days after the 17th aniversary. It was a very sad day.

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Yes, very sad... But they died doing what they loved to do. Not everyone can be so lucky. I hope the space program grows from this. There is no way to make space travel completely risk free, but, in honor of the men and women who died Saturday, we we must move forward! The shuttle is old. We need something fresher, newer, safer.


I was disgusted how quickly Bush was able to swich his speach from the Columbia dsaster to Iraq! If I was on the Columbia I would be so insulted I would haunt him! I mean, come on! He usually has more respect for Americans than that! :mad:

Geez...the pics in Ags2000's sig! They are so similar! 2 women, 5 men. 1 African American man. Thats just amazing at how much alike they are.

Originally posted by *Marilyn Monroe*
Geez...the pics in Ags2000's sig! They are so similar! 2 women, 5 men. 1 African American man. Thats just amazing at how much alike they are.


Yeah, there were alot of similarities between the two of them.

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