30 Years Ago

[wmenorr67]

30 years ago today we lost the Space Shuttle Challenger.

[makattak]

And, 19 years and one day before that,

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1967/01/28/page/1/article/blaze-kills-3-spacemen

[wmenorr67]

Then on the 1st it will be 12 years ago we lost Columbia.

[MechAg94]

So if NASA comes by and asks you if you want to go into space this time of year, ask for a delay.  Maybe March. 

[TommyGunn]

30 years ago today we lost the Space Shuttle Challenger.

" ....broke the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."  ~~ President Ronald W. Reagan, January 28th, 1986.

Yup,  I remember it well. 

[HankB]

And Obama celebrated the retirement of the Space Shuttle and with it, the end of the USA's manned space flight capability . . . at least for a number of years. The NASA which put a man on the Moon in less than a decade at the behest of a Democrat president is now - decades later - utterly unable to simply put a man in orbit in the same amount of time, and must go, hat in hand, to Russia for a lift.

But today's NASA has more diversity in hiring and management.

Another victory in Obama's drive to diminish America. 

[wmenorr67]

And Obama celebrated the retirement of the Space Shuttle and with it, the end of the USA's manned space flight capability . . . at least for a number of years. The NASA which put a man on the Moon in less than a decade at the behest of a Democrat president is now - decades later - utterly unable to simply put a man in orbit in the same amount of time, and must go, hat in hand, to Russia for a lift.

But today's NASA has more diversity in hiring and management.

Another victory in Obama's drive to diminish America. 

Japan is also in the mix.