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Reagan’s Space Shuttle Challenger Speech

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“We’ve grown used to wonders in this century.”

James Joiner

Updated Apr. 13, 2017 5:58PM ET / Published Jan. 28, 2016 5:26PM ET 

Thursday marked 30 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded on live television, plunging the seven astronauts aboard, potentially fully conscious, into the sea. That evening, replacing his State of the Union address with a memorial to the tragedy, President Ronald Reagan faced the nation with the above speech.

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