Ten Years After Columbia

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We will never know what thoughts went through the minds of Columbia’s doomed crew in that last minute in which they were becoming aware of their imminent peril. 
Perhaps, being the rational pilots and engineers that they were, they were simply focused on trying to save the ship. 
It could have been something as pragmatic as, “I wish that we’d had a better look at the leading edge of that wing.” 
What we can know is that they died doing something that they had worked years to be able to do, and they loved it, and thought it important. 
If we now fear to open up the high frontier because of what happened to them, they will have died in vain.

RIP brave heroes