On the recordFebruary 5, 2003
words are not sufficient to describe how I felt on Saturday morning when the Chairman of the Democratic Caucus announced that the space shuttle Columbia had gone down. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the seven courageous men and women astronauts. We mourn the tragic loss of Columbia's crew, whose lives were precious to all Americans. Today, as NASA and the Nation continues to struggle with shock and sadness, I want to take this opportunity to commend three Dorsey High School Students from my Congressional District--Atiabet Ijan Amabel, Christina Mojarro, and Juan Carlos Ortega--for participating in the STARS Academy Research Mission with an experiment that was placed aboard space shuttle Columbia. The STARS Academy is an online cultural and scientific global learning program. It incorporates a standards based curriculum in math, science, language arts, geography, and technology.
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