Today (January 28, 2019) Marks 33rd Anniversary of Challenger Shuttle Disaster

[winger]

A couple (of many) links ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/us/space-shuttle-challenger-anniversary-scobee-profile/index.html

https://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html

 

[DrQ]

High Flight
:
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

-John Gillespie Magee 1941

 

[plpgma]

High Flight
:
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

-John Gillespie Magee 1941

One of my absolute favorite poems.

 

[Panina]

I can tell you exactly where I was and who I was with when this happened. I was so shocked and saddened and will always remember.