Like NASA’s earlier tragedies, Columbia’s loss was avoidable, said former shuttle commander Bob Cabana, now NASA’s associate administrator. At space centers across the country, flags were lowered to half-staff, with ceremonies held along with spaceflight safety discussions. 27, 1967.īecause of the clustering of these three dates, NASA sets aside the last Thursday of every January to commemorate its fallen astronauts. The Apollo 1 launch pad fire claimed three astronauts’ lives on Jan.
WATCH: Space historian examines parallels of NASA’s last moon landing and the Artemis mission 28, 1986, killing all seven aboard, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. That same kind of cultural blunder led to the loss of shuttle Challenger during liftoff on Jan. NASA managers dismissed the impact during the flight despite the concerns of others. The shuttle broke apart over Texas, just 16 minutes from its planned Florida touchdown. 1, 2003, after a piece of fuel-tank foam came off and punctured the left wing during liftoff 16 days earlier. We pause to recall the memory of all those courageous souls,” said Konikov.Ĭolumbia was destroyed during reentry on Feb. No matter how fast we’re going, no matter how important our work, we must pause and think about why we’re here on Earth, and that’s what we’re doing today.
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But Zvi Konikov, a local rabbi, recalled how Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, asked him before the flight how to observe the Sabbath during two weeks in orbit with multiple sunsets a day. None of the Columbia astronaut family members attended the morning ceremony. NASA’s two shuttle accidents account for more than half of the names carved into the black granite of the Space Mirror Memorial plane crashes are to blame for the rest. More than 100 people gathered under a gray sky at Kennedy Space Center to remember not only Columbia’s crew of seven, but the 18 other astronauts killed in the line of duty.
(AP) - NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies and remembrances during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts on Thursday.
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