Challenger Part 2 - A Swan Song - We Lost The Sea

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 begun

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 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