{"id":196,"date":"2003-02-01T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=196"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/01\/columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rescomp.stanford.edu\/~ejalbert\/archives\/2003\/02\/01.html#001048\">Eric Albert<\/a> has written a moving piece about the <a href=\"http:\/\/science.ksc.nasa.gov\/shuttle\/resources\/orbiters\/columbia.html\">Columbia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/science.ksc.nasa.gov\/shuttle\/missions\/sts-107\/mission-sts-107.html\">STS-107<\/a> tragedy. I, too, remember the Challenger explosion, which we watched in a school-wide assembly because a New Hampshire school teacher was among its crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/rescomp.stanford.edu\/~ejalbert\/archives\/2003\/02\/01.html#001048\">\n\nI remember the Challenger explosion, and the meaning it had to a boy enthralled by the idea of exploring the universe.  Strangely enough, the disaster only increased my interest in space, as I and many others paid more attention to subsequent Shuttle missions than we had to Challenger.  I hope that the same outpouring of interest will occur here&mdash;that a new generation of children will cheer on our space program with more energy than they did yesterday.  If so, that&rsquo;s one positive that might come from today&rsquo;s events. \n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtpbylee.com\/blog\/archives\/2003_02.html#26\">Lee Bennett<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrophisch.com\/archives\/2003_02.html#000197\">Chris Turner<\/a> have posted their thoughts, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/backissues\/2003\/02\/01\">Dave Winer<\/a> has posted lots of links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was very impressed by Ron Dittemore.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Albert has written a moving piece about the Columbia STS-107 tragedy. I, too, remember the Challenger explosion, which we watched in a school-wide assembly because a New Hampshire school teacher was among its crew. I remember the Challenger explosion, and the meaning it had to a boy enthralled by the idea of exploring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}