10/03/1987
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We will make our space program safe, reliable, and proud—just as the Challenger Seven would have wanted."
"Each one of you young astronauts, scientists, and experimenters is a future Columbus, an explorer of the 20th and the 21st centuries."
"We're going to let the American spirit of enterprise loose in the limitless frontiers of space."
"The dreams of your parents will become your realities."