We remember

[khaosworks]

I can't improve on what I did last year.




January 27, 1967 - Apollo 1
Edward Higgins White - Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom - Roger Bruce Chaffee



April 24, 1967 - Soyuz 1
Vladimir Komarov



June 29, 1971 - Soyuz 11
Viktor Patsayev - Georgi Dobrovolsky - Vladislav Volkov



January 28, 1986 - STS-51L - Challenger
Ellison Onizuka - Michael Smith - Christa McAuliffe - Francis Scobee - Gregory Jarvis - Ronald McNair - Judith Resnik



February 1, 2003 - STS-107 - Columbia
David Brown - Rick Husband - Laurel Clark - Kalpana Chawla - Michael Anderson - William McCool - Ilan Ramon

pictures from Ex Astris Scientia

Now the rest is up to us, and there's a future to be won:
We must turn our faces outward, we will do what must be done:
For no cradle lasts forever; every bird must learn to fly:
And we're goin' to the stars -
See our fire in the sky!

-- Jordin Kare, "Fire In The Sky"

Comments

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder.

[poltr1]

NASA has a great Flash intro page on their site for their "Day of Remembrance". Check it out.