The Surly Bonds of Earth: Challenger and Discovery
Humans in space. Most can name the first astronaut or the first man on the moon. How many of us remember the name of the ships that carried them to space? We remember Friendship-7 and “The Eagle has landed” on the moon. For me, eight other names were burned into my memory because of one of my photographs. The ship was Challenger and the names were Michael J. Smith, Francis R. “Dick” Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik, and Christa McAuliffe.