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[i]Dozens of astronauts, former Kennedy Space Center directors, community leaders and aerospace companies are behind an effort to build a $500,000 granite Shuttle Monument that would take its place near the other space monuments that dot the park. "We want a complete set," said Charlie Mars, president of the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation, which is helping coordinate fundraising efforts. The six-sided black granite base of the planned monument will feature scenes of workers doing various aspects of shuttle processing. The top, made of stainless steel, will have a shuttle design, surrounded by a triangle resembling the mission patch of STS-1 -- the first shuttle flight in 1981, on orbiter Columbia, commanded by John Young and piloted by Robert Crippen. Young and Crippen are among the monument's supporters, along with such noted astronauts as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first two astronauts to walk on the moon; and Eileen Collins, the first female shuttle commander. Mars said about $60,000 has been raised so far, much of it from local space contractors and from former and current space-industry workers... Among the scenes to be depicted on the monument, Mars said, are workers installing heat-resistant tiles, stacking the solid-rocket boosters, maintaining the main engines, putting new equipment in the payload bay and performing control-room operations.[/i]
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