When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords watches her astronaut husband get launched into space on Friday, two of her staff members who also survived the Tucson mass shooting will be there, too, thinking about how far they've all come in less than four months.
Ron Barber and Pam Simon traveled to Florida from Tucson on Thursday with family and other staff members of Giffords to watch the space shuttle launch. They both spoke with The Associated Press shortly after landing.
"This just really makes you think about the human spirit, and our determination to go into space as a nation I think parallels Gabby's determination to get well," said Simon, a community outreach coordinator for Giffords who survived after a bullet hit her in the chest and exited her hip.
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