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Date:      Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:37:21 -0800
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc:        John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com>, barbish@a1poweruser.com, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup
Message-ID:  <3E3DABB1.3080306@pantherdragon.org>
In-Reply-To: <3417F02C-35FF-11D7-9E46-0003937C0B34@mac.com>
References:  <3417F02C-35FF-11D7-9E46-0003937C0B34@mac.com> <a05200f26ba6224f27fa6@[193.0.9.156]>

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Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:07 AM -0800 2003/02/01, John Martinez wrote:
>>> Seven soles lost in the disaster.
>> 
>> Yeah, what a tragedy for our nation.
> 
> I guess they have to rename the agency again.  After Challenger blew 
> up, I heard that NASA stood for Need Another Seven Astronauts. I
> guess now it will have to be NASAA -- Need Another Seven Astronauts
> Again.
> 
> 0.5 ;-0

I found it a little odd that both shuttles' names start with C and 
Columbia blew within a week of the Challenger explosion's aniversary.

>> I hope this doesn't affect our space program negatively, but we
>> will recover from this.
> 
> It was almost three years after Challenger before we finally put 
> another shuttle in space.  It's probably going to be two to three
> years before we launch another shuttle, assuming we do launch any
> more shuttles.

They said on the news that they're putting things off until June, when 
they will need to make another grocery run for the space station.


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