Someone recently posted two pictures on ARocket of a 'Space Shuttle' 
climbing poetically to orbit.
Part of one picture is currently the wallpaper on this PC.
I was looking at the awesome beauty of the scene with its long 
turbulent exhaust cloud (for most vehicles exhaust clouds and awesome 
beauty aren't usually a good fit but the Shuttle manages just fine).

My thoughts were drawn to the final pictures of Challenger and from 
there to Regan's subsequent "slipped the surly bonds of earth" 
quotation.
I wondered where it came from. Google, as ever, knows. An interesting 
background. Written by a US citizen who flew and died as a WW2 
Spitfire pilot for Britain. Interestingly, the quotations uses the 
very first and very last words of the actual poem.

        http://www.qunl.com/rees0008.html



                Russell


Back to work ...





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