NASA Commemorates Space Shuttle Tragedies

eldavojohn writes "Space.com is covering NASA's commemoration of the Apollo 1 crew & the last shuttle crews of both the Challenger and Columbia orbiters. The Apollo 1 crew was lost forty years ago yesterday to a fire while testing their spacecraft on a launch pad. From the article: 'While the nearly two decades separating NASA's three space disasters allowed room for the agency to grow complacent, the relatively short time between the 2003 loss of Columbia and the end of the shuttle program could avoid a repeat of such behavior.'"

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Space Shuttle Trajectories

[Anonymous Coward]

I first read the headline as "NASA Commemorates Space Shuttle Trajectories" and immediately saw (in my minds eye) a bunch of nerds in white collared shirts standing around toasting the outstanding flight paths of the last 25 years. What a strange thing to commemorate.