Space Shuttle Challenger Quotes

• The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goodbye, Morning, Journey

  The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address, delivered 28 January 1986

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Safety, Gone

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• The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Strength, Light

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• Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Blessed, Character

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• The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Rockets, Accidents

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• The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Space, Surly, Crew

  The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address, delivered 28 January 1986

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• What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, People, Care

  Richard P. Feynman, Richard Phillips Feynman (2006). “Ojalá lo supiera!: las cartas de Richard P. Feynman”, p.20, Grupo Planeta (GBS)

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• [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear question.

  Freeman Dyson

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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