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Originally Posted by Pierre
I don’t mean to come across as insensitive.
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Haha, heaven forbid!
Although not the Challenger - I'm too young - the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegration on return resonates as a memorable event in time.
The following proposed STS-400 (Endeavour) mission to rescue STS-125 (Atlantis) astronauts would have surely been defeated by capitalist ideals of the value of a handful of deaths and a shit ton of fuel. On a human level I didn't want to see STS-400 but it would have - if successful - represented (for me) the pinnacle of human achievement even twenty years later.