Re: Challenger - Columbia (2)
more easily than professional astronauts.
Also, the Challenger astronauts had not had the opportunity to go to space at all, during sts51L.
Columbia's accident was the second to the Shuttle program.
All astronauts were professionals with a perfect knowledge of the risks involved and remembering Challenger too.
But they had allready accomplished the dream of flight as they were coming back.
And it happened too suddenly for them to realize.
If I had to choose between those two ways of dying, I'd take the second.
Raoul