During the re-entry of Apollo 10, Walter Cronkite can be heard (in the actual broadcast tape) referring to its astronauts as "sailors of the sky" who "slipped the surly bonds of earth." The latter line is from the sonnet "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee and was written during World War II. The line become world famous when President Ronald Reagan used it in his eulogy of the astronauts killed in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

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