Each year around this time
I think about the space shuttle Columbia disaster and about some things astronaut Michael Anderson said near the end of this story, which ran before his first space shuttle flight five years earlier.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/jan/20/prepared-for-takeoff-cheney-high-grad-michael/
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