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Topic: 2008 NASA Day of Remembrance
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mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-07-2008 05:15 PM
It's hard to believe it's been nearly 5 years since the STS-107 mission. Is anyone aware of any planned tributes or memorials to the Columbia crew in the coming weeks?I am also curious if there are any plans to follow up the CAIB investigation with an independent review of NASA's efforts to undertake the recommendations in the report. |
blue_eyes Member Posts: 165 From: North Carolina, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-07-2008 07:30 PM
Well, we are definitely aware of a planned tribute to STS-107, but sadly it won't be in the next few weeks! My audio engineer and I have been working full-time for almost 5 years on a music CD tribute to Columbia, and we are presently looking towards a late-spring/early summer release. So although the CD won't be "ready" by the five-year anniversary date, the music itself has been an emotional mountain and truly a labor of love. I'll be sure to post again later when the CD is actually available, and I hope that our tribute will be just one of many such memorials this year. Hail Columbia.Anne www.annecabrera.com |
space4u Member Posts: 323 From: Cleveland, OH USA Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 01-08-2008 11:05 AM
Look forward to hearing your music Anne. I just signed up on your mailing list to find out about your Columbia tribute CD.Also--I just checked the NASA web site and there will be a ceremony at KSC which will be broadcast on NASA-TV on Fri. Feb. 1 at 10 AM. --Marcy |
blue_eyes Member Posts: 165 From: North Carolina, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-08-2008 05:28 PM
Thanks, Marcy, I'm very grateful to you. And I'm also very glad that you posted the info on the KSC NASA-TV ceremony here for everyone.Anne www.annecabrera.com |
tegwilym Member Posts: 2331 From: Sturgeon Bay, WI Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-09-2008 11:56 AM
Five years already!?Time goes fast I guess. I guess I can use that date to remember how long it's been since I bought my house. I was moving out of my condo when STS-107 happened. My condo was all boxed up and I was working on cleaning up and in the process of moving. That day brought me to a stop in my moving work I remember. T. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-11-2008 01:59 PM
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex release quote: Remembrance Service to Mark 5th Anniversary of ColumbiaOn Friday, February 1, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., The Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF) will conduct a ceremony to honor the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 on the 5th anniversary of the Columbia accident. The Astronauts Memorial Foundation honors and memorializes all astronauts who have sacrificed their lives for the nation and the space program. The ceremony will be held at the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Speakers will include Alan Doshier, Chairman of the AMF Board of Directors; Evelyn Husband-Thompson, widow of Colonel Rick Husband, Commander of Columbia; William Parsons, Kennedy Space Center Director; Colonel Eileen Collins, Return to Flight Space Shuttle Commander; William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations; William Readdy, Space Shuttle Commander and former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations; G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization; and Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator. The Astronauts Memorial Foundation's President, Dr. Stephen Feldman, will lead the service. The Space Shuttle Columbia's crew of seven astronauts perished when Columbia broke apart during re-entry on February 1, 2003. The crew included Commander Rick Husband, Pilot William McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialists David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, and Laurel Clark, and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon. The public is invited to attend the service. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will provide flowers for all ceremony guests and visitors throughout the day to place at the memorial. For more information, call 321-449-4400 or visit kennedyspacecenter.com.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-13-2008 02:42 PM
From Katherine Cooper with the Apollo 1 Memorial Foundation: quote: January 27th is coming up quickly. It has been 41 years since Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White lost their lives in that awful spacecraft fire. Still, few people remember them, no one has seen a monument at Arlington National Cemetery (or anywhere else that I am aware of), and the day goes by with only people like you and me remembering and honoring them. Let’s turn that around. The memorial ceremony will be held again on the 27th. I urge those of you who can attend in honor of the crew to contact Patrick Air Force Base Public Affairs to find out the process. A lot of folks are spread out over the country, and even the world, so many of you will be unable to make it. We ask those of you who cannot, to take a moment at 6:31pm on January 27th to give honor to each of these three men. They were good men; funny, serious, intelligent, and dedicated. They died for a cause they believed in; they gave everything they had to give. We can take just a moment to remember - I know you all will. Tell others about them; there are other folks out there who would care if they knew the story of the crew.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-15-2008 10:36 PM
NASA Television will provide live coverage of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's remembrance service honoring space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew. The ceremony will be held at the Space Mirror Memorial on the NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex at 10 a.m. EST on Feb. 1, the fifth anniversary of the Columbia accident.For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, see this website. |
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posted 01-17-2008 10:35 AM
Any events planned in Houston? |
yeknom-ecaps Member Posts: 660 From: Northville MI USA Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 01-19-2008 09:17 PM
What day is the "official" NASA Day of Remembrance this year? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-19-2008 09:18 PM
In 2006, NASA stated that a Day of Remembrance is to be observed annually on the last Thursday in January (and consistent with this, in 2007, it was Thursday, January 26). As such, in 2008, it should be January 31. |
yeknom-ecaps Member Posts: 660 From: Northville MI USA Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 01-20-2008 08:09 PM
Thanks Robert.Please verify - for 2007 I believe it was moved because the date was prior to all the tragedy dates - from a NASA web site - "NASA will hold a Day of Remembrance on Monday, Jan. 29, 2007". |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-23-2008 08:59 AM
NASA Glenn Visitor Center will be hosting an astronaut memorial presentation for the general public entitled "In Remembrance" on Saturday, January 26th at 12:00 p.m. Further information about this presentation will be posted on GRC's website soon. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-23-2008 07:40 PM
quote: Originally posted by mjanovec: Is anyone aware of any planned tributes or memorials to the Columbia crew in the coming weeks?
From the Jerusalem Post: quote: A delegation of astronauts from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration is coming to Israel next week to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Israel's first astronaut, Col. Ilan Ramon, in the Columbia shuttle's last flight.... On the anniversary of his death, ORT Kiryat Yam pupils will listen to a lecture by NASA astronaut Captain Michael Lopez-Alegria on space research... Meanwhile, the Knesset Science and Technology Committee will mark the five years since Ramon's death in a special session to be attended by the visiting NASA astronauts.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-26-2008 11:58 PM
The Dallas Morning News has published a special section for the 5th anniversary of the loss of Columbia: Tragedy Over Texas: Columbia Remembered |
KSCartist Member Posts: 2896 From: Titusville, FL USA Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-27-2008 07:54 AM
Tonight the annual ceremony to mark the loss of the Apollo 1 crew will be held at Launch Pad 34. Please take a moment at 6:31 pm to remember Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, their sacrifice that made the Apollo Program successful. Tim |
Lou Chinal Member Posts: 1306 From: Staten Island, NY Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 01-27-2008 04:28 PM
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ejectr Member Posts: 1751 From: Killingly, CT Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-27-2008 05:31 PM
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FutureAstronaut Member Posts: 372 From: Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 01-27-2008 10:02 PM
From here on, not only will I mourn the loss of the Apollo 1 crew on January 27, but I will also mourn the loss of my Grandpa. What a coincidence.------------------ Mike |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 01-28-2008 12:24 AM
And today, it's Challenger + 22 years. At times, it feels like yesterday. . Chris
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ejectr Member Posts: 1751 From: Killingly, CT Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-28-2008 05:47 AM
quote: Originally posted by FutureAstronaut: From here on, not only will I mourn the loss of the Apollo 1 crew on January 27, but I will also mourn the loss of my Grandpa. What a coincidence.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
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eilisk Member Posts: 100 From: London Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 01-28-2008 08:07 AM
Apollo 1 was before I was born, but it's hard to believe Challenger has been 22 years. And Columbia 5. I take a few minutes on those three days to pause and remember, as I'm sure Apollo 1 would have if. Both shuttle tragedies left indelible marks on my memory. Particularly Challenger as I was so young, but STS-107 was a mission I'd been following extremely closely via the joy of technology and Nasa TV. . |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-28-2008 10:38 AM
The Sabine County Columbia Memorial Committee and the citizens of Sabine County will commemorate the fifth anniversary with the Columbia Memorial Service to be held in Hemphill, Texas. The program will begin at 7:45 a.m. on Friday, February 1, 2008 at the Hemphill High School Gym. The program will last approximately 45 minutes. Following the Memorial Service, the community will assemble at the "Star" on Highway 87 for the dedication of that project. |
cddfspace Member Posts: 609 From: Morris County, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 01-28-2008 11:08 AM
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Mike Isbell Member Posts: 551 From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA Registered: Aug 2003
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kimmern123 Member Posts: 83 From: Norway Registered: Dec 2006
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contra Member Posts: 318 From: Kiel, Germany Registered: Mar 2005
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blue_eyes Member Posts: 165 From: North Carolina, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-28-2008 06:46 PM
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-28-2008 07:21 PM
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's Day of Remembrance message: quote: The last week of January brings, every year, a confluence of sobering anniversaries that we honor this Thursday with our Day of Remembrance. On Jan. 27, we marked 41 years since the loss of the crew of Apollo 1, and with it NASA's loss of innocence. The Apollo fire made it clear that we bring to spaceflight the same human flaws as our forebears who first sailed the ocean or went aloft in stick-and-wire contraptions. Successive generations have known the same harsh truth; the crew of Challenger was lost to us on Jan. 28, 22 years ago, and on Feb. 1 we mark five years since the loss of Columbia.These losses carry an inevitable and awful guilt for those of us who have spent our professional lives on the edge of the possible in aviation and space. We know that what we do carries risk to ourselves or those who depend upon us, risk beyond what is customary in most other walks of life. This risk is endemic to flight in all its forms; it cannot be set aside. And yet, anyone who has ever sat on a failure board or read its report knows that there are no smart accidents. Every one is the result of human frailty, of things done or not done that are, in retrospect, obviously wrong. When this is seen in the harsh light of yet another accident report, it eats at us in a way that leaves no escape and never goes away. How could we have been so blind? Yet we were, and there is no going back, there is only forward, forward with the knowledge that we missed something crucial, forward with the resolve not to make the same mistake again. When it comes to engineering and operations, we don't. We won't again put a crew in a cabin with high-pressure oxygen and no escape route. We won't again accept a joint design that is somehow "OK" because, even though its primary o-ring fails routinely, its secondary o-ring remains mostly intact. And we will never again believe that foam moving at high speed is, after all, just foam. But as tempting as it is for us who are engineers and managers to take comfort in finding and fixing the root causes of these accidents and other near misses, I think we do ourselves a disservice thereby. For when we investigate, we always find that there were people who did see the flaw, who had concerns which, had they been heard and heeded, could have averted tragedy. But in each case the necessary communication -- hearing and heeding -- failed to take place. It is this failure of communication, and maybe the failure of trust that open communication requires, that are the true root causes we seek. These are the real reasons we have a Day of Remembrance, and need one. I was reminded of this the other day when an old NASA friend sent me a congratulatory e-mail on the success, so far, of the Messenger mission to Mercury, and acknowledging my (small) role in it from an earlier professional incarnation. My friend started his note by saying that because his message was in connection with my prior role, he felt that he was not violating "protocol" or jumping the chain of command. And of course he was not. But I worry whenever someone brings up a concern about communicating between different levels in the "chain of command." Whenever it arises, my own worry is that the free and necessary flow of information is inhibited. We employ the organizational hierarchy and its accompanying flow of authority and responsibility to serve us, not to tie our hands. A healthy organization allows information to move up, down, and sideways, and pushes decisions, and trust in those decisions, down to the place where they can best be made. An unhealthy organization prevents needed information from flowing to those who must determine where that place is. But no amorphous "organization" does these things. For good or ill, it is the people in NASA who do, or do not do, what is needed. So, if you find yourself with a concern that you are reluctant to speak about to your supervisor, or to have a conversation about outside your "chain of command," think about what that can cost. If you're the one hearing a concern, think about whether you're really listening, or just waiting politely until the speaker is done talking, and think about what that can cost. In either case, think about whether you're working in the right kind of organization to meet the exacting demands of what it is that we do. Don't leave for a better organization -- that's not the right answer. Help us make NASA what it needs to be. The authority to provide direction lies in the chain of command, and belongs there. But to require the "chain of command" to be coincident with the "chain of communication" produces only dysfunction. The information that provides the situational awareness to allow good leadership, and good followership, belongs to us all. Remember that the next time you are reluctant to speak, or impatient with listening, and remember the real reasons that we have a Day of Remembrance. The more we remember those real reasons, the longer it will be before we have another cause for mourning.
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dss65 Member Posts: 1156 From: Sandpoint, ID, USA Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 01-28-2008 09:07 PM
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-29-2008 10:46 AM
Additional memorials: Israel also said yesterday that it would like to send another astronaut to take part in a NASA expedition. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-30-2008 08:33 AM
From Johnson Space Center director Michael Coats: quote: Day of RemembranceAt 10:15 a.m. tomorrow, Jan. 31, we will pause to remember the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia, as well as Wally Schirra, who passed away in May 2007. I would like to invite all employees to the Astronaut Memorial Grove to observe this moment of silence in honor of their commitment to NASA's space exploration programs and their bravery. These astronauts and their families will always be a part of NASA's family, and our Day of Remembrance will commemorate their collective contributions. - Apollo 1 (Jan. 27, 1967): Astronauts Roger B. Chaffee, Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Edward H. White Jr.
- Challenger (Jan. 28, 1986): Astronauts Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis and S. Christa McAuliffe.
- Columbia (Feb. 1, 2003): Astronauts Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon.
- Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. (March 1923 - May 2007): Wally was the only astronaut to have flown in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
Throughout the day, please feel free to visit the Astronaut Memorial Grove to celebrate the lives of these great explorers who served their country well.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-31-2008 09:59 PM
Arlington Public Schools release quote: Planetarium to Honor Life of Fallen Arlington SonThe Arlington School Board unanimously approved a recommendation to name the Planetarium in honor of Captain David M. Brown. Captain Brown, a Yorktown High School graduate, died while serving as a mission specialist on the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission on February 1, 2003. In November 2007, Arlington Public Schools received a letter from Arlington resident George Wysor, a childhood friend and classmate of Brown's and an APS alumnus, requesting that the APS planetarium be renamed in memory of Captain Brown. In December, the School Board appointed a committee to review and discuss the suggestion and to make a final recommendation. The committee membership included members of the community, APS instructional staff, Yorktown alumni and current Yorktown students. The Planetarium Naming Committee recommended that APS rename the Planetarium as the David M. Brown Planetarium, effective February 1, 2008, the fifth anniversary of Captain Brown's death on the Shuttle Columbia. The report to the School Board focused on the many reasons why the committee believes the Planetarium should be named in memory of former Arlingtonian and Yorktown alumnus, Captain David M. Brown. - As a son of Arlington, David Brown's life and accomplishments are worthy of the honor and should be celebrated in the community.
- He is an excellent representative for Arlington County and Arlington Public Schools, based not only on how he lived his life, but as an example of the possibilities available to all of us and what can be achieved through dedication and hard work.
- David Brown's life is exemplary for current and future students, showing what perseverance and commitment can achieve.
"The Planetarium is an excellent way to honor David Brown since it is a unique component of Arlington Public School's instructional program and represents Captain Brown's passion and interests," said APS Planetarium specialist Jonathan Harmon."Yorktown meant a lot to David as he showed by taking a flag that Yorktown students created into space with him," said Yorktown senior Andrew Leonard. "We are all familiar with the saying 'the sky's the limit'; well, David Brown took this saying to heart," said Yorktown senior Lyndsey Wilcox.
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mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 02-01-2008 09:01 AM
5 years ago today. Hail Columbia. |
NavySpaceFan Member Posts: 655 From: Norfolk, VA Registered: May 2007
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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