The strive for space and its cost

[overbear]

25 years ago today, A young me sat in a classroom with 8 others and a teacher, at 5:30 in the morning, watching live the first teacher to get to go to space...and we watched as that same 7 people gave their lives. I can remember the tears and the horror, as 7 lives were taken, in the strive to push the human race to new levels.

RIP

Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik