Emphasis Preaching Journal

Confidence in those things that can ultimately disappoint is a natural human tendency. In our era, people have extraordinary confidence in technology, yet two dramatic and painful events have pointed to our tendency toward unjustified confidence in that technology. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle, Challenger, with nine successful flights to its credit was launched from the Cape. With a crew of seven, including the first teacher to travel in space, the flight was dubbed 51L. But only 73 seconds into the flight the craft exploded killing the entire crew and stunning the world.