![]() Nothing ends here our hopes and our journeys continue. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program, and what happened today does nothing to diminish it. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted it belongs to the brave. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.Īnd I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. We've grown used to the idea of space, and perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. But for 25 years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to wonders in this century. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, ``Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy.'' They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. We mourn their loss as a nation together.įor the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight we've never had a tragedy like this. Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. It's located on the campus of Hazard Community and Technical College.Ladies and gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. The first one built in a rural area was in Hazard, Ky. "No one that was watching from here or from anywhere in the world could have imagined that 30 years later that middle school students would be coming to do a simulated space mission from something that happened 30 years ago," Cravens said. Just 18 months after the tragedy the families of the crew members came up with the concept of the Challenger Learning Center. 72 seconds after the spaceship with these seven crew members took off it exploded in air while millions of people were watching on live television. McAuliffe was going to teach lessons from space along with the commander Dick Scobee, Judy Resnik, Greg Jarvis, Mike Smith, Ron McNair and El Onizuka. Christa McAuliffe had been chosen from all those teachers that had applied," said Tom Cravens, Director of Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky. ![]() "There had been thousands of teachers who had applied to be this teacher in space. Someone who would be the first teacher in space. The first NASA mission that had someone besides an astronaut on board. On Januthe Challenger space shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. ![]() Their memory still lives on at Challenger Learning Centers across the country. 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff. ![]()
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