Astronaut Michael Collins brought an index card with the poem typed on it on his Gemini 10 flight and included the poem in his autobiography "Carrying The Fire". Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz quoted the first line of the poem in his book "Failure Is Not An Option". U.S. President Ronald Reagan used part of "High Flight" in a speech written by Peggy Noonan on the night after the Challenger disaster on 28 January 1986.