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Despite tragedy, space program will go on.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Seth Borenstein
WASHINGTON _ America will return to space. The only questions, and they are big ones, are when, in what and at what cost.
Everyone from President George W. Bush to NASA space shuttle officials vowed Saturday that America's human space program would not die with the seven Columbia astronauts. History suggests that they will be right.
After the 1967 Apollo 1 fire and the 1986 Challenger explosion, when America also lost astronauts, the disasters triggered renewed interest in space. They made Americans "redouble our resolve," said Howard McCurdy, an American University space policy professor.
"The cause in which they died will continue," President Bush said Saturday, his words reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's post-Challenger address to the nation: "Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to ...
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