Day of Remembrance
Please visit NASA’s Day of Remembrance tribute to the fallen astronauts of the U.S. space program.
Today marks the 2 year anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew during re-entry, just minutes away from landing in Florida after a successful sixteen day mission.
January 28th marked the nineteenth anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew (STS-51L) during lift-off at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
And, proving winter is the cruelest season, January 27th marked the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Apollo 1 pad fire that killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffe and Ed White.
In Memoriam:
Space Shuttle COLUMBIA (STS-107) — February 1, 2003
- Rick D. Husband, Commander
- William C. McCool, Pilot
- Michael P. Anderson, Payload Commander
- David M. Brown, Mission Specialist 1
- Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist 2
- Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Mission Specialist 4
- Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist 1
Space Shuttle CHALLENGER (STS-51L) — January 28, 1986
- Francis R. Scobee, Commander
- Michael J. Smith, Pilot
- Judith A. Resnik, Mission Specialist 1
- Ellison S. Onizuka, Mission Specialist 2
- Ronald E. McNair, Mission Specialist 3
- Gregory B. Jarvis, Payload Specialist 1
- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist 2 — Teacher in Space Program
APOLLO 1 — January 27, 1967
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