So midway through Saturday, I read a bit about the shuttle crash. And then soon, it is all I am reading about — various memorials, tributes, weeping and prayer.
The thing that hits me the most is the lack of interest in the space program. How many people even knew that the space shuttle was currently on a mission? You know? How many people who watched debris of the shuttle streaking across the sky said, “Holy shit, I didn’t know we even still launched those things.”
Remember watching, in 2nd grade, whenever, the television set wheeled into the classroom, the space shuttles launching, the space shuttles landing.