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We've grown used to wonders in this century. |
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It's hard to dazzle us. |
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We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. |
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We're still pioneers. |
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Sometimes painful things like this happen. |
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It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. |
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It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. |
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The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave. |
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Nothing ends here. |
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On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. |
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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.” |
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Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake‘s, complete. |
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We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye. |
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And “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.” |
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Thank you. |
