8、Ronald Wilson Reagan Shuttle Challenger Disaster Addre_8自改zhchshr

8、Ronald Wilson Reagan Shuttle Challenger Disaster Addre由刀豆文库小编整理，希望给你工作、学习、生活带来方便，猜你可能喜欢“8自改zhchshr”。

8.Ronald Wilson Reagan-Shuttle Challenger Disaster Addre

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the

Union, but the events of earlier today have led

me to change those plans.Today is a day

for mourning and remembering.Nancy and I are pained to the core by thetragedy of the

shuttle Challenger.We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country.This

is truly a national lo.Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three

astronauts in a terrible accident on

the ground.But we've never

lost an astronaut in flight.We've never had a tragedy like

this.And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle.But they,the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs

brilliantly.We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith

Resnik, Ronald

McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and

Christa McAuliffe.We mourn their lo as a nation together.For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full

impact of this tragedy.But we feel the lo, and we're thinking

about you so very much.Your loved ones were

daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a

challenge, and I'll meet it with joy.” They had a hunger to explore the universe and

discover its truths.They wished to serve, and they did.They served all of us.We've grown used to wonders in this century.It's hard to dazzle us.But for twentyfive

years the United States space program has been doing just that.We've grown used to

the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun.We're still pioneers.They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the

live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff.I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen.It's all

part of the proce 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 pullingus into the future,and we'll continue to follow them.I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program.And what happened

today does nothing to diminish it.We don't hide our space program.We don't keep

secrets and cover things up.We do it all up front and

in public.That's the way freedom is,and we wouldn't change it for a minute.We'll continue our quest in space.There will

be more shuttle flights and more shuttle

crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space.Nothing ends

here.our hopes and our journeys continue.I want to add that I wish I could talk to

every man and woman

who works for NASA, or

who worked on this miion and tell them: “Your dedication and profeionalism have

moved and impreed us for decades.And we know of your anguish.We share it.”

There's a coincidence today.On this day three hundred and ninety 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 livedby 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.