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NASA To Resume "Teacher in Space" Program

Posted by michael on from the learning-experience dept.

Bishop923 writes "According to this CNN story it appears that NASA is resuming the Teacher in Space program with the first teacher to go up in 2004. The Teacher in Space program was suspended after Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, and the rest of the crew perished in the Challenger Explosion." This is also the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961; we did a good write-up last year.

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  1. Re:Need another seven astr.... by Safety+Cap · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I would have thought that after 9/11 people would be a little more sensitive towards life and the loss-there-of.
    How so? More people die annually from car wrecks, AIDS, and handguns every year than the number who died in WTC. Yet, we still joke about how _(insert region/ethnicity)_ can't drive for jack, or how _(insert region/ethnicity)_ are always shooting themselves. And you laugh, too!

    Space is dangerous -- there are a million ways to die. The 7 in Challenger STS 51-L weren't the first to die (wasn't it 3 who died in Apollo 10---for America---anyway?), and they most certainly won't be the last.

    If we are too scared that we might get hurt or die, then we need to retreat to our Westwood playpens (or stay jacked into the idiot box for the Must-C-TV "adventure hour") and let some real explorers take some risks and get some glory, Janet!

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    Yeah, right.
  2. Re:Need another seven astr.... by PD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did it ever occur to you that the failure to laugh is the primary reason the world is as screwy as it is? When people take themselves and what they believe too seriously, they fly planes into buildings.

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.