


It just seems like yesterday, said Wayne Hale.


First day on the job new job, he remembered.




Shock. Couldn't be happening. Just numb. Didn't understand how it could have happened, Hale said.

Memorials and anniversaries have a tendency to push remembrance. But it s not memory that is most important to the folks at NASA -- it s actually learning from tragedy

You don't ever get on with your life after tragedy, said Hale. You don't get over it. Maybe you pick up the pieces and do some things, but it never leaves your mind. This is, you know, a death in the family.

Seven deaths.




The tragedy forced a conversation about the future of America in space. It s a conversation that is still taking place.

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