January 29, 1987

Throw deep! --President Ronald Reagan, when asked his thoughts on initiating the Superconducting Super Collider project

You're going to make a lot of physicists ecstatic, Mr. President. --Director William Miller, Office of Management and Budget

That's probably fair, because I made two physics teachers in high school very miserable. --President Ronald Reagan

In 1993, $2 billion dollars into the project, President Clinton and Congress cancelled it entirely. All that now remains are 200,000 square feet of vacant factories, labs, and over 30 km of carved-rock tunnels filling with water.

the vast flatland of Meridiani Planum will henceforth be known as Challenger Memorial Station