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Silver Linings-Triumph Of The Challenger 7 by June Scobee Rodgers

Ten years after she watched her husband's space shuttle explode into flames, June Scobee Rodgers, wife of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee, tells the story of the tragedy that changed her life. In Silver Linings: Triumph of the Challenger 7, June recounts her personal journey through intimate pictures and words, revealing how she found joy in the midst of her sorrow and triumph in the Challenger tragedy.

She writes: "We watched in silence as our loved ones climbed the sky sunward. Their craft from the distance seemed to sit atop a great flume of smoke. The floor shook with the sheer raw power of the millions of pounds of thrust. ...My son lovingly and protectively put his arms around me and his sister. As I reached to help my daughter Kathie with the baby...it happened! The unspeakable happened. Standing there together, watching with all the world, we saw the shuttle rip apart. The SRBs went screaming off on their own separate paths and the orbiter with our loved ones exploded in the cold blue sky, and like our hearts it shattered into a million pieces."

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