[JChlupsa]

Toughts and prayers go out to the familes and those all involved in the mission. Its harder when you play a part of the Space Program. When the Challenger blew up right after launch i was at Moron Spain, sitting on the runway in a C-141 in case it needed to make an emergance landing somewhere in Europe. Needless to say it never made it across the Atlantic. I retired and went to work at Edwards as a NASA Contractor and meet two fo the crew members that lost their lives over Texas when the Columbia broke apart. having worked on that baby and knowing folks on the mission and on the ground crews, makes it even worse.
For some of you that dont know the shuttle after in orbit flys upside down and backwards at just over 18,000 MPH and has to flip over and right itself when preparing to land.

Again the flag in front of my home is at half staff where it will remain as such for 7 days, one for each onboard