3/5/2003: Columbia reconstruction room

[ndetroit]

Sorry to semi-hijack the thread, but... wolf, that's really fascinating stuff...

What made you first interested in getting into something like this? How long have you been doing it?

Is there a "half-life" for people like yourselves? (ie: After 3 years, you just can't do it any more)...

Also: it seems like you are basically counselling the teams that respond to disasters, not the actual victems themselves, right?


I can only imagine what those shuttle employees are going through right now.. It's probably doubly upsetting: first the loss of the lives of those astronauts, in the pieces of vehicle that you are reconstructing, and second, the fact that their entire lives were devoted to building/maintaining that vehicle, and now they have to look at it every day, in horrible twisted pieces.. kind of a brutal reminder.

I guess it's times like this that I can be thankful that I have a nice boring desk job.