[Timesink]

Another piece of prewritten news pablum that comes back to embarrass the Associated Press!

[Recovering_Democrat]

DOES ANYONE DOUBT
the reporters working for the press KNOW what they will say before the event happens and they have an agenda??

This isn't like a famous old celebrity, where one can write an obituary before the passing.

[Anti-Bolshevik]

Unbelievable

[aristeides]

The next time Columbia flies will be in November, when it carries into orbit educator-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was the backup for Challenger crew member Christa McAuliffe in 1986.

One lucky lady. I wonder if she will learn her lesson now.

[dfwgator]

The 13 lab rats on board part of a brain and heart study had to face the guillotine following the flight so researchers could see up-close the effects of so much time in weightlessness.

No doubt the PETA nuts are mourning the loss of the lab rats more than the astronauts.

[foreverfree]

bump

[DeaconBenjamin]

I don't see your point. I don't see anything in this article that didn't happen. Columbia was streaking towards a Florida landing. That landing simply did not take place.

[TLBSHOW]

BRRR

[TLBSHOW]

Look at the time 820. Calling Marcia was there a ski trip yesterday or did William pitt write this one too? How much longer will it be up? Bets anyone?

[The Great Satan]

Ilan Ramon, a colonel in Israel's air force and former fighter pilot, became the first man from his country to fly in space, and his presence resulted in an increase in security, not only for Columbia's Jan. 16 launch, but also for its landing. Space agency officials feared his presence might make the shuttle more of a terrorist target.

Yes, thank God it didn't blow up or anything.

[don-o]

Winnah!

Stupid Post of the Week!

[Cvengr]

''I guess you've been wondering, but you are 'go' for the deorbit burn,'' Mission Control radioed at practically the last minute....... ''Do we really have to come back?'' astronaut David Brown jokingly asked Mission Control before the ride home.

I wonder in what context these quotes were actually delivered. Probably inncocent, but perhaps ill-fated.