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Everything is possible until proven impossible, and then you just need to become more creative.
Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten —Natasha Bedingfield
Finally, the Clintons arrive for a meet-and-greet with photos. But when it is time for Luke and Gail’s photo with President Clinton, the stressed-out photographer announces he is out of film. Gail does her best to lasso Luke in her arms for the lengthy wait while film is located and the camera reloaded. But immediately after the photo is clicked, Luke turns and slugs the leader of the free world in the arm. Regaining his footing, Luke then kicks the First Lady in the shin and runs out the door, with most people in the room laughing hysterically.
Hahaha....that's great!
One lyric really stuck out that evening—James Taylor’s haunting song “Fire and Rain,” about the loss of James’s friend Suzanne, suggesting an airplane accident. The line about “sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground” shook me quite a bit, knowing the risk I would be willingly launching into the next morning.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified. Do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.
Seven brave astronauts perished during her final mission. . . . Those who explore space in the days ahead may gaze back at Earth—and know that Columbia Point is there to commend a noble mission. The point looks up to the heavens and it allows us, once again, to thank our heroes who soared far beyond the mountain, traveled past the sky—and live on in our memories forever.
Columbia Point is a prominent sub-peak of Kit Carson Mountain, part of the beautiful Crestone Group in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Colorado Rockies. As was done with its twin memorial peak, Challenger Point, we will install a memorial plaque on the summit
The bronze laptop-sized plaque is emblazoned with the STS-107 mission logo and these powerful words from our President: In Memory of the Crew of Shuttle Columbia Seven who died accepting the risk, Expanding humankind’s horizons February 1, 2003 “Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.”
Iain told his dad he is going to become a scientist and invent a time machine to go back and warn his mom and the crew.[22]
Bless his heart. Even though it's been so many years since the Columbia tragedy, and all the children of the crew members are grown now, my heart still breaks for them and their families whenever I read about it.
The largest and most complex structure ever built in space, ISS is several times bigger than the US Skylab or Russia’s Mir. The International Space Station measures 357 feet end to end, almost the length of a football field. The seventy-five to ninety kilowatts of power for the ISS is supplied by an acre of solar panels, longer than a Boeing 777, with a wingspan of 240 feet. It takes eight miles of wire to connect the electrical power system and fifty-two computers to control the systems on the ISS, with 3.3 million lines of software code on the ground supporting 1.8 million lines of flight
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The ISS orbits the planet every ninety minutes and has been continuously occupied since November 2000. At the time of publication, more than two hundred people from fifteen countries have visited.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on. —Christa McAuliffe, Challenger astronaut
Legendary astronaut Gus Grissom, Commander of the Apollo 1 mission, expressed it best. “If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk.”
a Silver Snoopy, a special pin representing Snoopy in a bubble helmet and backpack. Charles Schulz had been a big friend of the space program early on. Silver Snoopy pins are made from a piece of space-flown silver, considered the highest honor for an individual in the NASA workforce, and can only be presented by an astronaut.
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this System, but the whole grand fireworks. —Ray Bradbury
