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I remember this happening -- 25 years ago. A good and sobering sift.

I've gotten so used to partisan bickering that I was half expecting Reagan to make some offhand remark about it being the fault of those damned dirty liberals.

I was just telling an older coworker of mine how we grew up during this. When Reagan was addressing the kids, that would have been me at the time. I was telling my coworker how I grew up believing that our generation would be spending a lot of time in space by the time we were the age I am now.

I think we're all a little peeved that it didn't turn out that way.

I was waiting for a military medical entrance exam when the shuttle blew up on the waiting room TV. I got called like 2 minutes later to go see a doctor. With my luck, I then sat down in front of a Marine Corps Psychiatrist for the psych part of the test. I looked at him and said, "I think the shuttle just blew up". He got extremely mad at me and said something to the effect, "what the heck are you trying to pull". I had to convince him that what I was saying was true even though I only saw like 2-3 minutes of the live footage so I wasn't really sure myself. I quickly learned valuable lessons about how things operate in a hierarchy.

Anyway, I loved the shuttle back then. It was a sad day for all.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- "High Flight", Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee

http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html

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