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02/03/2003 Entry: "Wishes for peace from beyond the grave..."
On Saturday 1st February 2003, at around 2pm GMT, Space Shuttle Columbia, and all seven souls on board were lost as the spacecraft broke up on re-entry over Texas, for reasons as yet unknown. They were around 15 minutes from being safely home.
But this isn't about what happened, or the loss of those seven explorers, brave enough to travel beyond our atmosphere. It's about a wish for peace from beyond the grave.
A day before they were to lose their lives, Shuttle astronauts Willie McCool and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space, woke up, and downlinked this message to mission control.
It was a wish for peace. They weren't the first people to say that being in orbit brings it all home to you. They say you see a world without borders, and how small one nation is in the grand scheme of things.
There are some people in the world who should listen to this recording, and take it's message to heart.
"That's mine, this is mine", it's just posessions. This planet belongs to no-one but us, each and everyone.
It's not your world, or anyone else's. It's our world. Share it.
