Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost

Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost

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Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost
NASA lost 7 of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch. In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. From left to right are Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe and astronauts Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Mission Commander Dick Scobee, astronaut Ronald McNair, pilot Mike Smith, and astronaut Ellison Onizuka. Image Credit: NASA

NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of space exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance – Thursday, February 7.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, and other agency senior officials, will lead an observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia starting at 1 p.m. EST. A wreath-laying ceremony will be held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, followed by observances for the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crews.

Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost
The STS-107 poses for a group shot in a photo recovered from Columbia’s wreckage. In blue shirts, from left: Dave Brown, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson. In red shirts, from left, Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon. Image credit: NASA

Various NASA centers also will hold observances on and leading up to the Day of Remembrance for the public, employees and the families of those lost in service to America’s space program.

Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost
Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967. It would have been launched on February 21, 1967, but Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module. Image Credit: NASA

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

The Astronauts Memorial Foundation and Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will host Day of Remembrance observance activities, including a wreath-laying ceremony at the Space Mirror Memorial. Thad Altman, president and chief executive officer of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, and Robert Cabana, Kennedy center director, will speak at the ceremony.

(Source: NASA)

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