Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"I want to thank you all for honoring Dick Scobee. So many times he's been remembered for how he died. Thank you for remembering how he lived."

Source: June Scobee-Rodgers, widow of Challenger astronaut Dick Scobee, as her late husband was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Also inducted Saturday were Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; Frederick Gregory, the first African-American to serve as a spaceship commander; Norman Thagard, the first American to live aboard the Mir station; and Richard Covey, commander of the first post-Challenger mission into space.

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