Challenger Part 2 - A Swan Song

We've grown used to wonders in this century
It's hard to dazzle us
We've grown used to the idea of space
And perhaps we forget that we've only just began
We're still pioneers
Sometimes painful things like this happen
It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery
It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted
It belongs to the brave

Nothing ends here
On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake
Died aboard the ship off the coast of Panama
In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans
And an historian later said, "He lived by the sea, died on it
And was buried in it"
Well, today we can say of the Challenger crew
Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete

We will never forget them
Nor the last time we saw them
As they prepared for their journey
And waved goodbye
And slipped the surly bonds of earth
To touch the face of god

Thank you