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![]() Coming up on the 20th anniversary, I'm beating my old drum with two suggestions for proper commemoration: 1. Stop calling it an 'accident'. It was a disaster, a crash, a catastrophe, probably NOT an 'explosion' (a disintegration, more accurately) -- but it was most of all a consequence of actions, a string of situations that all lined up to destroy the spaceship and the crew. It was avoidable. It was somebody's FAULT. It was 'wrongful death'. 2. Don't be satisfied with "73 seconds of silence". We now know the crew did not perish cleanly in a shattering explosion (the way many officials would have liked the public to believe), but lost consciousness over the next 20-30 seconds as the air rushed from their intact cabin (some taking emergency measures, as trained), only to die on impact with the water two minutes later. In the years after the disaster, NASA memorial services commemorated the 73 seconds of the spaceship's powered flight, but overtly ignored the next two minutes of the crew's lives. See http://cbsnews.cbs.com/network/news/..._Disasters.htm |
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