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January 28, 2006
In Memorium Septem
Twenty years ago this morning the space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing the entire crew soon after. I was 16 years old and can remember the exact spot I was standing when I heard about it. I and my classmates spent the rest of the day in silence, glued to the television.
Almost three years later I watched the space shuttle Discovery return America to space from the steps of the Gus Grissom dormitory at Florida Tech (then called The Florida Institute of Technology) just down the Space Coast from the cape. I was a freshman in college studying computer engineering at a university that was started by some NASA scientists and engineers, and has very close ties to the space program. The Challenger disaster is one of the most extreme examples of what happens when politics and commitees get in the way of good engineering.
Ad Astra Per Scientiam
Posted by David Adams at January 28, 2006 08:38 AM