Today is the anniversary of the Challenger shuttle tragedy. This picture is dedicated to those brave men and women of the Challenger and Columbia and all the astronauts who lost their lives in the exploration of space. It is called "Touched the Face of God" and comes from this poem.
High Flight John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
h, I have slipped the surly bonds of earthO
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 sunlit 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.
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