Remembering the sacrifices of those who dared step into space.
In January 1986 the shuttle Challenger exploded a few minutes after launch. The disaster shoot America and the and nearly ended the shuttle program.
On the night of the disaster, President Ronald Reagan had been scheduled to give his annual State of the Union address. He initially announced that the address would go on as scheduled, but then postponed the State of the Union address for a week and instead gave a national address on the Challenger disaster from the Oval Office of the White House. It was written by Peggy Noonan, and was listed as one of the most significant speeches of the 20th century in a survey of 137 communication scholars.[30][31] It finished with the following statement, which quoted from the poem “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.:
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.'[32]
Memorial service on January 31, 1986, at Houston, Texas, attended by Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan (left).
Three days later, Reagan and his wife Nancy traveled to the Johnson Space Center to speak at a memorial service honoring the crew members, where he stated:
Sometimes, when we reach for the stars, we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain.
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