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 has failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that led to the loss of the challenger. during the 30 months since the accident, there have been hundreds of hardware changes to not only to the solid rocket booster but 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. three, two, one, zero.
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 focus ix it an it again. kwithin a matter of days we knew it was a solid o-ring that had failed. it led to the loss of the challenger. during the 30 months since the accident, there have been hundreds of hardware changes to not only the booster but to the orbiter and the large liquid rocket fuel tank. numerous software changes had been implemented. all had been tested
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 assigned to that crew. liftoff! liftoff.
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. 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
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 orbitter, 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. liftoff!