No disrespect to those who lost their lives that day, but the crew photo for that mission looked like the cover photo of a Federal EEOC enforcement manual.
Perhaps not coincidentally, so did the photo of the ill-fated Columbia mission years later:
We didn’t give up spaceflight that day. We gave up spaceflight when the next moon mission became skylab.
No disrespect to those who lost their lives that day, but the crew photo for that mission looked like the cover photo of a Federal EEOC enforcement manual.
Perhaps not coincidentally, so did the photo of the ill-fated Columbia mission years later:
At least in 1972-1977 we had a system capable of putting an American Astronaut into orbit. Now? We need to RELY on Russian goodwill for Pete’s sakes!