NASA's Day Of Remembrance Honors Fallen Astronauts
- last year
NASA honors the crews of Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1, astronauts who died in training and on a test flight.
Apollo 1: Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee
Challenger: Commander Scobee, Pilot Michael J. Smith, Mission Specialists Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, and Ronald E. McNair, and Payload Specialists Gregory B. Jarvis and Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Columbia: Commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown and Laurel B. Clark, and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon (Israeli Space Agency)
Astronauts that died during training/test flight: Theodore Freeman, Charles Bassett, Elliot See, Clifton C. Williams, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr and X-15 pilot Michael James Adams
Credit: NASA
Apollo 1: Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee
Challenger: Commander Scobee, Pilot Michael J. Smith, Mission Specialists Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, and Ronald E. McNair, and Payload Specialists Gregory B. Jarvis and Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Columbia: Commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown and Laurel B. Clark, and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon (Israeli Space Agency)
Astronauts that died during training/test flight: Theodore Freeman, Charles Bassett, Elliot See, Clifton C. Williams, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr and X-15 pilot Michael James Adams
Credit: NASA