February 1
Posted by Rich Magahiz Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:56:00 GMT
where have you gone?
there are no buds;
the sky is cold
Thy saints ascend
into the grace manifold
lighting up errant galaxies
that flicker on forgotten trees.
On this day in 2003, while returning to Earth from an orbital mission, the U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke up catastrophically at an altitude of about 60 km (40 miles) over Texas, killing all seven crew members.
