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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10663
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 10:36 pm: |     |
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Hey, it also wouldn’t look good coming out of a motel with your wife’s best friend saying you were just planning a surprise birthday party for her husband...- Arturo November '03
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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10664
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 10:38 pm: | |
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Hey, it also wouldn’t look good coming out of a motel with your wife’s best friend saying you were just planning a surprise birthday party for her husband...- Arturo November '03
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Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2831
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 10:52 pm: | |
Thanks for the reminder, and the pictures. |
ajc
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Username: Ajc
Post Number: 2370
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 3:25 pm: | |
Thanks... Thirty-Seven Years ago today. Hard to believe.  |
irl
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Username: Irl
Post Number: 67
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 1:57 pm: | |
The Challenger exploded in January, too. May they all rest in peace. |
Carl Thompson
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Username: Topcat
Post Number: 40
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 3:47 pm: | |
The dates of the three U.S. space disasters are within one week of one another. NASA recently designated a day of remembrance for them, as summarized in the following excerpt from the CNN website.
NASA sets aside day to remember fallen astronauts
Thursday, January 29, 2004
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA's chief reminded employees Thursday that "the consequences of us not getting it right are catastrophic," as the space agency paused to remember the dead crew members of Columbia, Challenger and Apollo.
Administrator Sean O'Keefe said in a televised address that space exploration is risky but never should result in fatalities because of "complacency, indifference, failure to attend to detail." That should be a solemn pledge for anyone who works in the space program, he said.
The Day of Remembrance falls three days before the first anniversary of the Columbia disaster. O'Keefe said it will be an annual event, always on the last Thursday of January coming as close as it does to all three of the nation's space program catastrophes.
The Apollo 1 fire during a countdown test on January 27, 1967, left three astronauts dead in their spacecraft on the launch pad. The Challenger explosion during liftoff on January 28, 1986, left seven dead. The Columbia breakup during re-entry on February 1, 2003, killed seven more.
O'Keefe choked up as he read the roll of 17 who "lost their lives because we failed."
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