"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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