Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.
We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.

