bill@dayton.UUCP (Bill Argyros) (01/29/86)
I am very glad to find that I am not the only one who knows
that this is no reason to stop space exploration. The problem
must be found and corrected before any more manned flights, but
this will happen. It always has before.
"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But
to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly
unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect"
I only wish the President had given credit for the first and
last lines from the poem he quoted:
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings,
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sunsplit clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft theough footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
The Dream is Still Alive.
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