| the columbia catastrophe   | 
      
        | James 
          Oberg Articles | 
      
        | 02/02/2013 - MSNBC: "Did NASA Keep Columbia's doomed Crew in the Dark?" | 
      
        | 02/01/2013 - nbcnews.com: Top 10 myths surrounding NASA's Columbia space shuttle disaster | 
      
        | 02/01/2013 - nbcnews.com: Ten years later, Columbia's tragic loss serves as a warning to NASA | 
      
        | MSNBC debunks Columbia/Hale Media Mythmaking | 
      
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          02/03/2003 
            - abc.net.au: Future 
              of space missions questioned [post-Columbia]
 Oberg: “I think some people are using the coffins 
              as a soapbox. It always happens, it is unseemly and the 
              best thing to do is treat such people with the contempt 
              they deserve.”
 Oberg: “We are explorers, we are discoverers, and 
              that if we stop exploring and discovering, we stagnate 
              and eventually we’re gone, because we humans are 
              descendents, not of the stay-at-homes, the smug self-satisfied 
              stomach and groin crowd, but of the people who went out, 
              risked and died to find out new things.”
 
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        | Some 
          NBC Nightly News pieces with comments by Oberg: 1(Video),2(Video)  | 
      
        | Other 
          Sources for Columbia Information | 
      
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