I take note of this week every year – we’re into the saddest week of the year for NASA, because of all the anniversaries clustered together:
Apollo 1 launch fire: January 27, 1967
- Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Command Pilot
- Edward H. White, Senior Pilot
- Roger Chaffee, Pilot
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: January 28, 1986
- Francis R. Scobee, Commander
- Michael J. Smith, Pilot
- Ronald McNair, Mission Specialist
- Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist
- Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist
- Greg Jarvis, Payload Specialist
- Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster: February 1, 2003
- Rick D. Husband, Commander
- William C. McCool, Pilot
- Michael P. Anderson, Payload Commander
- Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist
- Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist
- David M. Brown, Mission Specialist
- Laurel Clark, Mission Specialist
Not forgotten.
Michael Anderson went to school where I work. He is certainly not forgotten here.