[JBird]

it takes an incredible amount of bravery and character to do what these men and women of all nationalities do. my heart goes out to all of those who perished today.

hopefully in the near future when someone finally wins the X prize ( a contest that involves anyone who has the money and materials to build a reuseable spacecraft that can take off, orbit the earth and land again with using solid rocket boosters and such massive vehicles) the danger and unpredictability of rocketry will slowly disapear. we are getting closer to this goal as plasma engines and ion engines are being developed.

the point is, space tragedies will not go away, but hopefully this will reduce the danger aspect of space travel.