<story><title>The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion</title><url>http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>&amp;gt; You may not know it, but you carry some of his words with you in your own earthly exploration, printed in every U.S. passport.&lt;p&gt;This whole article was fantastic, but this was the coolest part for me.  To learn that his quote is on every passport.  I&amp;#x27;ve never read the quotes on my passport before, but now I have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blahedo</author><text>I agree.  It&amp;#x27;s on the biometric passports but not the previous generation, on p28 (and is abbreviated from the full quote printed in the article):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Every generation has the obligation to free men&amp;#x27;s minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.&amp;quot; --Ellison S. Onizuka&lt;p&gt;The background on that page is a palm tree and a silhouette that might be Diamond Head, but the facing page is a space scene (not to scale) with an earthrise over the moon and a satellite.</text></comment>
<story><title>The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion</title><url>http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>&amp;gt; You may not know it, but you carry some of his words with you in your own earthly exploration, printed in every U.S. passport.&lt;p&gt;This whole article was fantastic, but this was the coolest part for me.  To learn that his quote is on every passport.  I&amp;#x27;ve never read the quotes on my passport before, but now I have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>As much as I hate the ESPN sports complex, everything I&amp;#x27;ve seen from the ESPN documentaries has been fantastic.</text></comment>