Sunday, February 13, 2011

January and Frebruary -- Months of Remembrance

On 27 January 1967, a fire in the cabin of Apollo1 during testing, claimed the lives of all three astonauts aboard.

Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee were lost.

May they rest in peace, and their lives serve as inspiration to those who still dream of High Flight.

On 28 January 1986, the Space Shuttle  Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after lift-off on STS-51-L.

Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnick, Michael J. Smith, and Dick Scobee were lost.

May they rest in peace, and their lives serve as inspiration to those who still dream of High Flight.

On 1 February 2003, The Space Shuttle Columbia was lost as it reentered at the end of a two-week mission, STS-107.


Rick. D. Husband, William McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chowla, Laura B. Clark, and Ilan Ramon were lost.

May they rest in peace, and their lives serve as inspiration to those who still dream of High Flight.