This film is dedicated to the seven astronauts who died in the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. During the 1970s, NASA employed Nichelle Nichols (Nyota Uhura) to help recruit minority and female candidates into the astronaut training program, which had previously had only white and male recruits. Nichols' recruitment work was partly responsible for NASA Group 8, the 1978 trainee group that included Dr. Sally Ride (the first American woman in space), Colonel Guion Bluford (the first African American in space), Dr. Judith A. Resnik (the first Jewish American in space), Lt. Colonel Ellison Onizuka (the first Asian American in space), and Dr. Ronald E. McNair (the second African American in space). Four of the astronauts (Resnik, McNair, Onizuka, and Lt. Colonel Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) recruited with Nichols' assistance for NASA Group 8 died in the Challenger disaster.

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