I was listening to C-SPAN on the car radio coming home from work a little while ago and was amazed at the number of callers who thought the space program was a waste of money. The way many sounded one would think that NASA had a monsterous budget, which relative to other budgets, is small at $15 billion a year.

When you think of how far man has come since Sputnik it is amazing that so few people have been killed relative to the dangers. I think we all knew going into this some 42 years ago that there would be mishaps, just like in any dangerous endeavor.

But this does not make this any easier to anyone. Just the sad reality that there are no gains without pains. And as I pointed out earlier, the souls, families and friends are in my prayers today.

Bobert