[FPSPACE] Columbia crew / helicopter crash

[Mgr. Antonín Vítek, CSc.]

>
> If memory serves, in addition to Columbia's crew, two pilots were lost in
> the Columbia debris recovery effort. I can't find a link to their names,
> but IMO NASA's incompetence in handling the Columbia emergency killed them
> as surely as it killed Columbia's crew. Perhaps someone here might
> remember what they're names were, and know something about the friends and
> family they left behind.  Those men deserve more than to be forgotten.
>


See e.g.

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=2317

Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc.

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