Here here, ORAC.
My sincere condolences to the families of the crew, also.
A terrible thing to happen to a group of people doing something they waited their whole lives to be able to do - flying in space. It is a shame that we seem to have become complacent when it comes to shuttle missions and we have forgotten what a truly great achievement human space flight is. I dearly hope lessons are learned from this accident so that this tragedy was not entirely in vain, and that our ambition to explore space continues despite this awful loss.
Regards,
a deeply unhappy Gingerbread Man
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