Adam Higginbotham

I think that the Challenger accident really represented a sort of loss of innocence in the way that Americans especially think of the promise of high technology.

And that's one reason why, for me, there was time before the Challenger accident and time after the Challenger accident.

And these are two very different epochs.

I don't know.

I mean, earlier this week, I was down in Houston and had dinner with some retired shuttle program astronauts and technicians and engineers from the program.

And a few of them were just sitting around and said, you know, people have got to understand that spaceflight is really dangerous.

You cannot treat it as if it's something that's just like getting on an airplane.

And no matter how far technology advances, it's always going to be really dangerous.

And it's a mistake to think of it otherwise.

Thank you for having me.