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History can give us a pretty good idea of what's about to happen here. Apollo 1's command module caught fire and killed all three crew members. Congressional inquiries were launched, and every inch of the fledgling Apollo program was put under scrutiny. The whole thing could have fallen apart, if not for the determination of President Johnson, Gene Kranz and those who re-engineered the living hell out of the Apollo command module.

Fatal accidents or the threats thereof struck the US space program several times thereafter. Apollo 13 barely made it back to solid ground. The crew on the Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia were not as lucky. Each time, the future of the space program was brought into question, but invariably, we soldiered on.