作词 : Windsor Airlift
作曲 : ALS
And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle‘s take-off.
I know it‘s hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen.
It‘s all part of the process of exploration and discovery.
It‘s all part of taking a chance and expanding man‘s horizons.
The future doesn‘t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we‘ll continue to follow them.
We‘re still pioneers.
They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.
On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said,
“He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.” Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake‘s, complete.
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 goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
Thank you.
touch the face of God!
We‘re still pioneers.