CHALLENGER anniversary, 21 years ago today... Options

[Stu]

Hard to believe, I know, but today marks the 22nd anniversary of the loss of CHALLENGER. While many people here will have their own very personal memories of that godawful day... I know I do... it strikes me that that's now so long ago that many of our younger members won't remember it, or weren't even born then, so anyone wanting to learn more about what happened should go here:

Challenger

[djellison]

It's a fairly black couple of weeks really, in terms of anniversaries.

Such is the price of exploration, and the cost of heroes. The world is a poorer place without them.

Doug

[nprev]

Such is the price of exploration, and the cost of heroes. The world is a poorer place without them.

Doug

Very true, and well said.

At the same time, we wouldn't even have a world without them...we would have been anonymous three-million year old fossils, never widespread, buried under some forgotten African plain (not that the continent would have ever had a name...)

To explore is the pinnacle of what it is to be, to exist as a living, thinking, feeling being; to die doing so is tragic, but also noble in the purest sense of the word. Peace to the crew of the Challenger and their loved ones.