@BeschlossDC I was sitting in a teacher ed. class, when a fellow student came in and told us. We were all devastated. The thing is, before the accident, if you had asked any of us, soon to be teachers, if we wanted to be on the shuttle, most of us would have jumped at the chance.
@RonFilipkowski Not true. Additionally, there's $161.3 billion (an increase of $8.6 billion or 5.7%) in mandatory funding about 2022 for benefit programs inclusive of Compensation and Pensions, Readjustment Benefits, Housing and Insurance.