Ten years on...

To be frank, if I weren't being pummeled—relatively speaking—by stories about Columbia, I might well have remained ignorant of the 10th anniversary of the loss of both crew and vehicle in the skies over "the cool, green hills of Earth."

Time has a way of dulling some aches, but a look at my posts for February 1, 2003 brought some of that gut-wrench back.

Ad astra per aspera...