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re: (They have) "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:04 pm to Alahunter
Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:04 pm to Alahunter
I was in my second year of college. Remember it like it was yesterday
Discovery is running a one hour special on it right now. I watched it two days ago. Kind of the hidden information of how the teacher was selected and what she had to go through to get ready or launch
Very interesting
Discovery is running a one hour special on it right now. I watched it two days ago. Kind of the hidden information of how the teacher was selected and what she had to go through to get ready or launch
Very interesting
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Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:07 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Oh, and Reagan was the best orator of my generation by far.
He had some incredible speech writers. Namely Peggy Noonan who wrote the Challenger address.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:14 pm to BluegrassBelle
Pat Buchanan was another.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:23 pm to Alahunter
Here's the original poem that's quoted in the speech:
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 ever 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, Jr
Story behind "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 ever 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, Jr
Story behind "High Flight"
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:13 pm to Alahunter
The words "Go with throttle up" are forever etched in my memory.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:52 pm to Alahunter
I was in 3rd grade so I am in that age cohort who most likely saw it live on TV in school.
Weird memories I have from that, aside from the fact that we had lesson-planned about seeing the teacher "teach a lesson from space" later that week, was this kid who said "that lady in the crowd was laughing".
His interpretation of the sister and mother of McAulife who were shown life on TV bursting out in tears in the crowd that was watching the launch live.
Weird memories I have from that, aside from the fact that we had lesson-planned about seeing the teacher "teach a lesson from space" later that week, was this kid who said "that lady in the crowd was laughing".
His interpretation of the sister and mother of McAulife who were shown life on TV bursting out in tears in the crowd that was watching the launch live.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:53 pm to SafetySam
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The words "Go with throttle up" are forever etched in my memory.
Yeah, childhood trauma. That's the first news event I remember seeing replayed over and over again. They must have shown that video of the rocket-booster flaming for a brief second before the whole thing exploded...about a million times that week.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 5:04 pm to Numberwang
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I was in 3rd grade so I am in that age cohort who most likely saw it live on TV in school.
I was in 6th grade and we must have been the only school in the country not watching it live. No idea why we didn't, but we definitely had talked about it since there was a teacher on the mission. Believe there was a teacher from another school in town that had been a candidate to be on the mission.
They didn't even tell us until late in the day and I didn't see any of the footage until I got home.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 6:11 pm to NYCAuburn
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Did you get through the quake okay?
Yeah, it was several hundred miles from here
Posted on 1/28/16 at 7:27 am to Pavoloco83
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One of those events like Kennedy assassination and 9/11 where if you were alive, you remember EXACTLY where you were when it happened.
Add to that when Reagan was shot.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 7:35 am to Alahunter
Wasn't born yet, but that event gets hearkened back to enough that my generation knows the events and images in detail. Not the same as living it, but still horrible. One of the Corps of Cadets outfits my squadron shared a dorm with was nicknamed the "Challengers" in memoriam of that disaster.
This upcoming Monday will mark 13 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. Somber days.
This upcoming Monday will mark 13 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. Somber days.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 7:56 am to Alahunter
Seventh grade and watching it on a TV on a cart, wheeled to the front of the classroom. My seventh grade science teacher applied for the same program as McAuliffe. She made it through a few cuts, which made the build up for the event even bigger in our class.
We've lost something as a nation along the way. When tragedies struck, a president's words calmed and comforted. That doesn't seem to happen much anymore.
We've lost something as a nation along the way. When tragedies struck, a president's words calmed and comforted. That doesn't seem to happen much anymore.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:06 am to Carolina_Girl
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Add to that when Reagan was shot.
I love Reagan, and named my firstborn son after him, but that's not in the same category. Yeah, we remember where we were, but we don't mark that anniversary and there was nothing to mourn or recover from afterward.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:12 am to TbirdSpur2010
quote:Amazing when you think about it that all three major US Space Program disasters, while happening years apart, all fall within a week of each other on the calendar - January 27 (Apollo 1), January 28 (Challenger) and February 1 (Columbia).
This upcoming Monday will mark 13 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. Somber days.
If you didn't know the stories, you would think the weather would be to blame but only Challenger was impacted by winter weather/cold temps.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:19 am to PJinAtl
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all three major US Space Program disasters, while happening years apart, all fall within a week of each other on the calendar - January 27 (Apollo 1), January 28 (Challenger) and February 1 (Columbia).
Wow that's crazy.
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