the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny st
the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went in with pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you would be driving home and you would say i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it becomes part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny stereo casset
them. 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. to honor our fallen, we have to find this and fix it and fly it again. within a matter of days we knew it was a solid rocket booster joint that had failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that had led to the loss of the challenger. during the 30 months since the challenger accident, there have been hundreds of hardware changes not only to the rocket booster but also to the orbiter and the large liquid rocket fuel tank. numerous software changes had been implemented. all had been tested exhaustively. i wanted the opportunity to fly on that first return flight, and i was fortunate, being assigned to that crew.
it belongs to the brave. the challenger crew was pulling us into the future and we ll continue to follow them. 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. to honor our fallen, we have to find this and fix it and fly it again. within a matter of days, we knew it was the solid rocket booster joint that had failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that had led to the loss of the challenger. during the 30 months since the challenger accident, there had been hundreds of hardware changes to not only the solid rocket booster, but also to the orbiter, the large liquid rocket fuel tank. numerous software changes had been implemented. all had been tested exhaustively. i wanted the opportunity to fly on that first return flight and i was fortunate being
today is a day for mourning and remembering. the future doesn t belong to the faint-hearted. it belongs to the brave. the challenger crew was pulling us into the future. and we ll continue to follow them. 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. to honor our fallen, we have to find this and fix it and fly it again. it was in a matter of days, we knew it was a solid rocket booster joint that had failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that had led to the loss of the challenger. during the 30 months since the challenger accident, there have been hundreds of hardware changes not only to the rocket booster but also to the orbiter