…and touched the face of God.
I don’t recall much from my early childhood. I was 5. I remember seeing this live on my giant wood mounted TV with the UHF and VHF dials, sitting down in front of the TV at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. I have always loved space, and my youthful excitement with it has been returning with a vengeance. The Challenger was my first taste of the heroics of space travel rather than simply the coolness of it. Regardless, I cannot put things into words nearly with the eloquence of the Great Communicator: