1/Today is 36th anniversary of destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger & deaths of 7 heroes (6 astronauts & 1 teacher turned astronaut). Prior to 9/11, for my generation this tragedy was our Dealey Plaza. We all remember where we were when we heard the news. pic.twitter.com/Pk9dOt9KBk
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) January 28, 2022
It’s a dangerous place to visit… not least when the lowest-bid parts of your spaceship intersect with ‘but the President wants to give his speech *today*’ politics…
The author's grandfather was a contractor with Apollo 1 and is now sharing his experiences: the pressure to meet deadlines, the shortcuts, and the dismissal of safety concerns before the Apollo 1 disaster https://t.co/rzZpKAUmKk via @sciam
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) January 27, 2022
The Pentagon is looking for garbage collectors in space https://t.co/2FniAbPym7
— Will Way (@WillWayInNYC) January 28, 2022
Incidentally, the politics of space travel, through the lens of collecting space garbage, was the basis of an acclaimed hard-sf anime series almost twenty years ago…
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