1/2/3 STS 107
I've just downloaded the CAIB report and will be hopefully read it. I'm hopeless when it comes to reading things.
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1/2/3 STS 107
I've just downloaded the CAIB report and will be hopefully read it. I'm hopeless when it comes to reading things.
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And linking to things.Originally Posted by Glom
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A year already. Jeez.
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
Order of Kilopi
We know time flies, we just can't see its wings.
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Takes off hat(hmm...no hat. well places hand over heart) and solemnly has a moment of scilence for each person who has died in space on on the way there and back.....
Lets hope that the sacrifices of columbia will not be uselessly wasted by politicialns and instead used to make the next trips safer.
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But, hopefully, Dylan Thomas said it best, without even knowing it. If any eulogy is needed, perhaps this one works well:
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot...
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Thanks Mike for the Green Hills of Earth. Perfect =D>
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Alright, so now there are 10 Hills on Mars, named after Fallen Astronauts.
But, where are the ones Named after The Crew of The Challenger?
And while we're at it, when is somebody going to name something, after a Cosmonaut?
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Give Opportunity - at Challenger Memorial Station - a chance to find some landmarks after it crawls out of the crater it's sitting in.
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When the Russians land a rover!And while we're at it, when is somebody going to name something, after a Cosmonaut?
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Another eulogy-
Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light:
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.
From The Old Astronomer to His Pupil by Sarah Williams. My school's astronomy club put that on our card we sent to NASA after the tradgedy...
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And lets not forget the song for the fallen pilots
Lord guard and guide the men who fly,
Through the great spaces in the sky.
Be with them always in the air,
Through darkening storm and sunlight fair.
Hear us when we lift our prayer,
To all in peril in the air.
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Ain't gonna happen...When the Russians land a rover!
I suppose Beagle 2 might have done so, if it had survived landing- it would be a nice gesture though- maybe in '07 when Phoenix lands...
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The evening my father died I remembered this fragment from Shakespeare and found it oddly comforting. Thinking of the terrible, specular beauty of Columbia's last fall, it seems even the Bard of Avon can offer something:
...when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night...
Damn. I'm sitting here with a half smile and tears in my eyes.
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And let's not forget:
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
(Cue missing Man formation)
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