posted 02-03-2008 01:04 AM            

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the airport in Denver (I think)

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There is also a statue of Jim Lovell at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago.

posted 02-03-2008 05:52 AM               

Moscow has several cosmonaut statues on the Alley of the Cosmonauts and a Gagarin statue on one traffic roundabout. There must be more Gagarin statues in Russia, I know of at least one in Irkutsk at the Ulitsa Gagarina.

Mongolia has one near the railway station of Choyr, but it does not at all resemble or seem to be dedicated to Gurragchaa.

posted 10-17-2008 10:16 PM               

Statue of Colo.'s Swigert gets more prominent spot

A statue of Colorado astronaut Jack Swigert, who died in 1982 just after he was elected to Congress, has been moved to a more prominent location in the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Republican Sen. Wayne Allard said Friday the statue now stands in Emancipation Hall in the new Capitol Visitors Center. It had been in a dark corner in a Capitol hallway.

posted 11-05-2008 12:10 PM               

Some of you might know I'm a postman at the Royal mail, today I delivered a postcard from Turkey (MARMARIS) to one of my customers. I thought nothing of it, the front had some beautiful pictures of the coastline, etc. and a statue of an astronaut?

There was some writing at the base but the image was small. Does anyone know why/what/who about this statue?

posted 11-05-2008 12:26 PM            

There is writing on the panels, some of in English:

Another website states:

It was erected in honour of US astronaut James Reilly II, who carried the Turkish flag and Marmaris pennant into space for the first time on mission STS-89 in 1998

posted 06-27-2009 03:37 PM               

Museum of Flight Statue Honors Washington State Astronaut Michael P. Anderson

On June 26, 2009, at a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m., The Museum of Flight will dedicate a statue honoring Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut and Washington state native, Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson. The slightly larger than life-size bronze statue will be situated in a newly lanscaped area on the west side of the Museum's main campus between the Red Barn(R) and Personal Courage Wing exhibition buildings. The statue is a duplicate of one erected in Spokane, Wash. in 2005. Anderson was the Payload Commander on the STS-107 Columbia mission lost during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.

Members of the Anderson family will attend the ceremony as will many of his friends and colleagues. Maj. Kimberly Scott, who served on the Michael Anderson Memorial Campaign, will serve as master of ceremonies for the dedication ceremony. Museum President and CEO Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar, who flew with Anderson on Space Shuttle mission STS-89 in 1998, will also participate in the ceremony. Guests include members of the Anderson family. An Air Force C-17, stationed at McChord Air Force Base, will perform a fly-by, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Baptist Church Choir, from Renton, Wash. will sing during the ceremony.

Anderson, a native of Cheney, WA, graduated from Cheney High School in Cheney, Wash. in 1977. He entered the University of Washington where he was a member of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and earned his bachelor of science degree in physics/astronomy in 1981. After graduating from the University of Washington, Anderson was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force and assigned to Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. He earned his master of science degree in physics from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. in 1990.

Anderson was selected as an astronaut by NASA in December 1994 and had a number of technical assignments before being assigned as a Mission Specialist on STS-89, Space Shuttle Endeavour, the eighth docking mission to the Russian space station, MIR. He was later assigned to STS-107 as the Payload Commander. The mission was lost during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.

Business and civic leaders in Seattle and Spokane funded the memorial statue to honor the life and achievements of Lt. Col Anderson. Maj. Gen. Harold "Mitch" Michell (USAF) served as the chairman of the Michael Anderson Memorial Campaign. The statue is designed to serve as an inspiration for children to follow their dreams. Education was an important priority for Col. Anderson. The statue will be located at the Museum site where school buses and children's groups enter through the Red Barn(R) exhibition building and is visible from the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial Bridge spanning East Marginal Way. Other funds raised through the campaign created The Michael Anderson Memorial Aerospace Scholarship for Children of Color. This special fund, awarded through the Museum of Flight, will help underserved children to attend educational programs at The Museum of Flight and is intended to help to inspire an interest in science, technology, engineering and math--STEM--education and careers.

posted 04-11-2010 09:18 AM               

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Swigert has one in... the airport in Denver

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posted 07-16-2012 11:27 AM               

Artists, sponsors and volunteers will install a bronze statue of astronaut Bonnie Dunbar in Sunnyside [Washington] this morning.

The statue honoring the astronaut who grew up in Outlook will stand sentry at the entrance to Central Park, corner of South Fifth Street and Franklin Avenue.

The $90,000 statue features two likenesses of Dunbar, one as girl growing up on an Outlook ranch and one as an astronaut in uniform, helmet tucked under her arm.

They were designed by Sunnyside artist Desiree Dawn and produced at a foundry in Joseph, Ore.