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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Address: Reassurance for NASA (Sentences 29-39) Summary

Hey, By the Way, NASA's Cool

  • Reagan's gives a major shout-out to NASA and insists that nothing, not even a space flight tragedy, is going to tarnish its lovely face.
  • He praises the transparency of NASA's research and equates it with freedom.
  • Reagan assures and then reassures everyone that NASA will continue poking around in space…because space is the best.
  • Reagan makes the hyperbolic claim he that he would personally comfort every single employee of NASA if he could.