Astronaut Tragedy

I hate to deem to be unsympathetic, but at 90, she could have died from many different reasons and that should have been planned in the excursion so to say......my Mother was dead at 88.....many people die MUCH earlier....thats life!

Judging by the advertising this blog has attracted, one wonders what business M&M Aero is actually in--or might have connections to!

Maybe the astronaut will see this discussion, check the margins, and know who to turn to?

Another vote for your to-the-valid-point answer.

I am currently an aerospace and mechanical engineering student at RPI graduating in May. I am currently not tied to any aerospace company.

M&M aero:

Glad to hear it...and congratulations in advance on attaining to your degree. I have been tied to aerospace...and if that's the path you choose, best wishes for success.

It was not aerospace companies my post was concerned with, but the various funeral, grief counselling services, burial insurance and such that appeared in the ad column (over there on the lower right) of CR4 board page last night as I was looking over these threads. Those ads seemed a bit ...well, peculiar and unexpected to be appearing here...and I couldn't resist the opportunity to rib you a little about maybe attracting them with talk of "tragedy." Understand it's all in fun (can I say that here?), and I really had doubts you are actually connected to any of the "grief" industries. Anyway, for some reason those ads are all gone tonight--hopefully never to return. Tonight the ads are all about geneology...a step in the right direction, I suppose.

Thanks for your clarification, though.

PS. If your blog offering causes board administrators to pay closer attention to the kinds of ads that a bulletin board can attract, that will be a good thing, too, don't you think?

Hi, Moose. Nice to "see" from you.

No offense to any algorithn writers, but for Google to work on theirs to make them conditionally less relevant might be a non-starter. But, even if they did/could, there's alway those...unintended consequences. Who knows? Maybe, instead of funeral directors, it'd be relationship counsellors, anger management purveyors, spiritual advisors, mediums/palmsters/tarot & tea leaf readers, Brothers This & Sisters That, and shrink-dot-coms of all sorts coming by to help us lighten up--both of angst and of our money? Anyway, funereal (pun?) directors deserve to have "fun," too; and occasional mal-apropos ads can be entertaining--a diversion from all the deadpan earnestness and seriousness^† on these CR4 fora--at least for those of us unfortunate enough to have these big, wide monitor screens.

CA

^†Writer sure wishes he could find a "tongue in cheek" emoticon somewhere. He'd try to create one if only he knew how.

The Big Kahuna has presented the right perspective. A space travel emergency should be reserved for the life safety of the space traveler.

While Mr. Tani is in space, he should take advantage of the solitude and proximity to the heavens to speak to his maker.

My Thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Tani. I do have to agree as I am sure Mr. Tani does an evacuation vehical should be for life threating situations only. With todays technologies his mothers funeral can be held off until his return. It is always better to greave with family and loved ones but in his situation it is best to look to the stars and greave with his maker and celibrate the 90 years of his mothers life.

Or keep focused on the job and grieve when time and circumstance permits. But probably Mr. Tani is better equipped than too many Americans to deal reasonably with matter of fact life events. Who could have imagined an engineering blog such as this one?

I feel response #1 made it as clear as it could be stated. Especially with regard to soldiers.

There is another alternative at this link........here

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Let us be clearer about what constitutes "tragedy." Have never seen it defined as "the death of a dying person of great years when a child is out of town." If that's the criterion, then I and many others no doubt have far, far more government largess coming than that astronaut's situation has been supposed to merit. Yes, a person deserves a day off to attend to parent/next-of-kin death matters; but transportation is usually--no, invariably--the responsibility of the survivor, not the employer. Also, all airlines will chip in to help with transportation, but that's talking a few $hundred at most--not $billions as relieving a space-faring astronaut would require.

Moderation in all things seems to be the operative answer here. No doubt, Mr. Tani, himself, would see the idea of evacuating from orbit to a funeral as more than a bit obscene.

Agreed.

My prayers go out for Astronaut Daniel M. Tani his Mother and family and friends of all.

This is my first news of this and it is a disheartening read and subject.

Money sometimes is not to concider. "Leave no one behind" is a good moto.

The STS-107 crew could have all been saved and I'm sure one day that on top of a rescue vehicle, that a cruise ship to go out for something like a cup of coffee will be part of the equipment as well as a vehicle for emergencys.

Off topic a bit, I have always believed in something like a mother's intuition, that in her intuitions she can just feel somethings no matter what the distance.

Another tangent farther off topic I will pursue on the forums is the "engineering of prayers"...though my first thoughts are based on feelings and understandings, is that something else beside words and faith are involved; fasting a note as well as maybe others..