[leadpenny]

Thank you for your thoughts. I've bookmarked the thread. I had the NASA TV station on and something clicked in me after about the third or fourth time Mission Control tried to establish UHF radio comm. Within minutes, when the long range cameras were not on, my pulse started racing.

[leadpenny]

Future reference:

Columbia Discussion thread

[wita]

I saved this one to disk, having left the thread on the desktop with just the first few comments. Took a shower did some bad shoulder exercises and the wife calls up from downstairs saying "it looks like we lost another shuttle crew". God bless the families who really bear the brunt of this event.