I am sure you have been hearing the reports coming from western India these past few days. Horrible earthquake, the worst in that nation in 50 years - 7.9 on the Richter scale, strong enough to be felt 1,200 miles away in Calcutta and Bangladesh, both well acquainted with tragedy themselves. Funeral pyres lit the night sky Saturday and officials said the rapidly rising death toll could reach 15,000.(1) Who knows how many more injured. It is terrible.

In the midst of those reports you may have also heard a reminder of another disaster, one that we all experienced 15 years ago today, the explosion of our space shuttle Challenger. Fifteen years ago. Seems like only yesterday. If I asked you where you were and what you were doing at a certain time three days ago, you might have to think a bit…