A week of remembrance
Forty-one years ago this past Sunday, we lost Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
Twenty-two years ago this past Monday we lost Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe.
Five years ago today we lost Rick Husband, William McCool, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon.
Let us never forget the sacrifices these brave men and women made in humankind’s exploration of the final frontier.
K4
February 13th, 2008 at 10:11 PM
You forgot one: Robert Lawrence, who also has the distinction of being the first black astronaut. He also was not a part of the public “Cover of Time Magazine” group of astronauts. He was the “For the good of my country” kind. Also an American hero.
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Pauley
February 14th, 2008 at 12:18 AM
There are quite a few others I could have added, too. I referenced the ones I did mostly because they all occured around the same time of year (last week in January). It was less a mark-the-astronauts post than a mark-these-events post.
– Pauley
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