\In light of potential war, in light of you know, basically just that, what's going on in the rest of the world, my reaction was sort of 'oh, that's sad.' ... We've been bombarded with so much tragedy, 9/11, potential war, Saddam Hussein, that this comes, and we're sort of in a desensitized sort of to this.""
""I just think the cool thing is that they got to go there, to space in the first place. 'Cause lots of people want to go to space and they're never going to be able to do it. That's what they wanted to do with their lives.""
""I've actually thought about my reaction to when the Challenger exploded to this one. And it was a much stronger emotional feeling the first time it happened. ... Maybe because of 9/11, maybe this one is not such a blow.""
