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 | | As I try to process the awful events of yesterday when Columbia fell from the sky, I keep coming back to the grief-stricken look on the face of Milt Heflin, Chief Flight Director, at the first NASA briefing, when he said: |
 | | I understand the risks these people take every day in the pursuit of knowledge, yet I've not really thought of them as heroes. |
 | | What these people do -- the dreamers, designers, engineers, builders, programmers, ground-crew, and, above all, astronauts who put their lives on the line -- is important to me. |
| www.raelity.org /science/space/remember_to_look_up.html (615 words) |
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