[X] My Assistant

[dvandorn]

Anyone else following this story? Someone who works in Building 44 at the Johnson Space Center outside of Houston (the Communications & Tracking Development Center) apparently came into the building with a handgun. One to several shots are reported to have been fired. An *unconfirmed* report says that a meeting was taking place in a conference room when the alleged shooter walked in, pointed the gun at one particular person, and told everyone else to get out...

CNN may be about to confirm that last story, though.

I hope no one we know works at JSC or in/near Building 44.

-the other Doug

[nprev]

Sad indeed, and yet another reminder that people who make spaceships happen are, after all, just people...

Not trying to justify this clown's actions at all, of course...just pointing out the frangibility of human beings and therefore the forever-ly inadequate screening that cannot predict the future actions of any given person. This guy probably had a security clearance higher than most of our forum members, and he was in his 50s at least, certainly one of the proverbial 'graybeards'; what the hell went wrong with him?