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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.

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.