Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Reassurances (Sentences 23-28) Summary

Open Call From the Future...Cowards Need Not Apply

  • Reagan tells the traumatized children of America that sometimes horrible things happen, and it's the price of progress.
  • He claims outer space is cool. (100% right, Reagan.)
  • If you want to be part of the future, you can't be a scaredy-cat.
  • The Challenger Seven were on a path to the future that Americans will continue to follow, despite the astronauts' untimely demise.