shuttle disaster

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:19:36PM -0800, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
...
>Or, as they would have said, "Morituri te salutamus!"  The gladiators of old
>Rome said this to the emperor before commencing, "We who are about to die
>salute you."  In my work on the Space Shuttle program some years ago I
>worked with some of the astronauts.  That was their attitude.  I'd bet that
>if you told any crew going into space that their mission was going to be a
>disaster they would choose to go anyway.

When I was racing cars for a living, I knew that there was a certain danger
involved every time I took my car on the track.  Furthermore there's a
tremendous amount of trust amongst the drivers who're running wheel-to-
wheel in open wheel cars at 140+ miles per hour (and we also knew which
drivers couldn't be trusted :-).

On the other hand, I would never have raced in a car built by the lowest
bidder, or maintained by government programs.

Bill
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