Columbia - STS - 107
Feb. 1st, 2003 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lionkingcmslFirst Apollo 1, then Challenger and now Columbia.
All within a "week" of each other separated by the years.
Apollo 1 - 1/27/1967
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
Challenger - 1/28/1986
Francis R. Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ellison S. Onizuka
Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Columbia - 2/1/2003
Rick Husband
William McCool
Ilan Ramon
Michael Anderson
David Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
17 brave souls that paved the way for further space exploration.
Yes, I know that the Russians have also lost cosmonauts, but these are "closer" in a sense. This is not to diminish, in any way, their sacrifices in space exploration.
I saw Apollo 1 still on the launch pad when I took a tour through Kennedy later in '67. I was listening to radio when the Challenger lifted off, and I was working on my own "space craft", the Lion's Den, when the call came from my mother about Columbia.
All within a "week" of each other separated by the years.
Apollo 1 - 1/27/1967
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
Challenger - 1/28/1986
Francis R. Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ellison S. Onizuka
Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Columbia - 2/1/2003
Rick Husband
William McCool
Ilan Ramon
Michael Anderson
David Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
17 brave souls that paved the way for further space exploration.
Yes, I know that the Russians have also lost cosmonauts, but these are "closer" in a sense. This is not to diminish, in any way, their sacrifices in space exploration.
I saw Apollo 1 still on the launch pad when I took a tour through Kennedy later in '67. I was listening to radio when the Challenger lifted off, and I was working on my own "space craft", the Lion's Den, when the call came from my mother about Columbia.
