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Getting to Space (#986)
Posted: 2/2/2003; 10:35 AM by Terry Frazier
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Amid the over-analysis, finger-pointing, self-flagellation, mourning, and reexaminations happening post-Columbia, I don't see anyone actually asking the right, tough question -- is this really the right way to get to space? Columbia was the oldest of the shuttles. Any malfunction in the controls in the flight regime can get her into an unrecoverable attitude, which is probably what happened.

Let us honor the dead, then understand how we should be Getting to Space:

Almighty Ruler of the all,
Whose Power extends to great and small,
Who guides the stars with steadfast law,
Whose least creation fills with awe,
  O grant thy mercy and thy grace,
  To those who venture into space.
   -- Robert Heinlein, the Prayer for Travelers

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