Twenty-six years ago today I was home caring for three young sons and a newborn daughter. I don’t remember why my first grader was home on a Tuesday morning. I do remember I had to convince him to watch the liftoff with me. I told him, “This one has a teacher on board. She’ll be showing school kids all over the country what it’s like to be in space. So we were watching together when the space shuttle Challenger took off and seconds later ceased to be. President Reagan was scheduled to give his State of the Union address that night. Instead, he spoke to us from the oval office. He quoted from one of my favorite poems: “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.”
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