Categories: just-life
Date: 27 January 2006 15:41:20
These are the lines of Ronald Reagan (now how often is he quoted on the Wibsite..??) in describing the Challenger disaster, which occured twenty years ago (Saturday). On This Day - BBCi
Unlike with the Columbia (tragic that it was) there was something about the Challenger disaster that made that much more impact. The fact that it happened during liftoff, and so was still bvery visable to all the crowd and the millions watching on tv, and that it was carrying the first school teacher (picked from over 10,000 applicants) to go into space.
I know that most people are going to be thinking about Holocaust day today (and the Muslim Council's decision to boycott it) but my thoughts are with these five men and two women who's lives were snuffed out bearly a minute into one of the greatest adventures they could have gone on.