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Lots of news stories today about the shuttle because of the Columbia anniversary.
Michael Browning wrote one such story for the Palm Beach Post in Shuttle a bird of extinction. I did notice that Mr. Browning got the Challenger date wrong. It was actually January 28, 1986. I was sitting in a hospital room with my wife waiting for the labor inducing drugs to kick in and got to watch a shuttle launch for the first time in quite a while; our first child was born the next day. That sort of thing tends to stick with you.
I missed the connection last year that Columbia was so close to the Challenger anniversary date (this past Wednesday, January 28th) or just forgot about it in the flurry of other things to worry about.
Update: Space.com has NASA's Shuttle Program Faces its Future and Jim Lovell commentary It's Time to Soar Again. [via /.]
Posted by Dave at February 1, 2004 01:34 PM