Challenger
Jan. 28th, 2011 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomHard to believe, in some ways, that it's been a quarter of a century since the space shuttle Challenger blew up.
(Yesterday was the 44th anniversary of Apollo 1. NASA has a remembrance site for those lost to the stars.)
I don't think of it much nowadays, but when I do it's as fresh as it was that day, with several of us sitting in an office listening to a radio, calling friends and family, and generally just feeling a huge hole in our hearts. But with that came the need, the desperate irrepressible need, to get right back on the bike and go... the imperative of not stopping, not slowing down, but reaching onward and upward.
Twenty-five years later, forty-four years later, the legacy of Challenger lives on.
One day, we'll get back to space. This time, to stay.
I hope we're all around to see it.
(Yesterday was the 44th anniversary of Apollo 1. NASA has a remembrance site for those lost to the stars.)
I don't think of it much nowadays, but when I do it's as fresh as it was that day, with several of us sitting in an office listening to a radio, calling friends and family, and generally just feeling a huge hole in our hearts. But with that came the need, the desperate irrepressible need, to get right back on the bike and go... the imperative of not stopping, not slowing down, but reaching onward and upward.
Twenty-five years later, forty-four years later, the legacy of Challenger lives on.
One day, we'll get back to space. This time, to stay.
I hope we're all around to see it.
