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February 1, 2005
They Left Our World
Sixteen men and women gave their lives for America's space program, as well as Israel's first astronaut. Tragically, their deaths coincide to within a calendar week.
We will remember their sacrifices, in the name of advancing human knowledge.
AS-204 (Apollo 1): Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee.
Died January 27, 1967.
STS-51-L (Challenger): Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, Sharon McAuliffe.
Died January 28, 1986.
STS-107 (Columbia): Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon.
Died February 1, 2003.
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
-President Ronald Reagan, in the Challenger disaster national address
Posted by Kelvin at February 1, 2005 5:09 PM
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