United States Space Shuttle Challenger
28 January 1986
[Obverse]:
In grateful and loving tribute to the brave crew of the United States Space Shuttle Challenger.
28 January 1986
Francis R. (Dick) Scobee
Commander
Washington
May 19, 1939
Michael J. Smith
Pilot
North Carolina
April 30, 1945
Ronald E. McNair
Mission Specialist
South Carolina
October 21, 1950
Ellison S. Onizuka
Mission Specialist
Hawaii
June 24, 1946
S. Christa McAullife
Payload Specialist
New Hampshire
September 2, 1948
Judith A. Resnick
Mission Specialist
Ohio
April 5, 1949
Gregory B. Jarvis
Payload Specialist
Michigan
August 24, 1944
[Reverse]:
HIGH FLIGHT
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings.
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of, wheeled and soared and swung high in the sun-lit silence hov'ring there.
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
my eager craft through footless halls of air,
up, up the long delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace where never lark or even eagle flew,
and while with silent lifting mind I've trod
the high untrespassed sanctity of space
put out my hand and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Courtesy hmdb.org
