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Topic: Places named after astronauts or spacecraft
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KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-14-2006 11:23 PM
   
I had a nice email from the Hampton Roads, Virginia area recently mentioning an M. Scott Carpenter bridge. Obviously, the name memorialized one of Langley's Mercury astronauts. I have heard about similar memorials for officer housing complexes, for example, at Patuxent River, Maryland.I thought to ask here about significant places named after astronauts or spacecraft: roads, bridges, schools, and so on. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44940
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-14-2006 11:43 PM
Here's a short list to get started... - Orlando, Florida has its John Young Parkway.
- In Houston is the Clear Lake City-County Freeman Branch Library, named in honor of Capt. Freeman.
- In Reston, Virginia is Buzz Aldrin Elementary school.
- There is an Alan B. Shepard High School in Palos Heights, Illinois.
- There are Virgil I. Grissom Elementary schools in Chicago, Illinois and Old Bridge, New Jersey. Virgil I. Grissom High School is in Huntsville, Alabama.
- John Glenn High School in Walkerton, Indiana is located on John Glenn Drive.
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ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2070
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 11-15-2006 12:43 AM
There's a Theodore C. Freeman Highway in Lewes, Delaware, and one of the four man-made islands off the coast of Long Beach, California, is named after him (the other three are named for Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee). The Apollo 8 astronauts also unofficially named a large crater on the moon after him.In November 1996, Texas Tech University dedicated an electrical engineering research laboratory to former student Charlie Bassett. In 2004 the administrators of the new Freeman Library in Houston told me they were also going to name the children's reading room in the library after Charlie. There are numerous schools, scholarship funds, planetariums, landmarks and institutions named after the crew of Apollo 1, which were too numerous for me to name in "Fallen Astronauts." However I did mention that there are now a Grissom Hall and Chaffee Hall at Purdue University, while Bunker Hill AFB in Peru, Indiana, was renamed Grissom AFB. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1795
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-15-2006 05:36 AM
There is an Alan B. Shepard highway and High School in Derry, New Hampshire. |
disglobes
Member Posts: 602
From: Orting, WA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 11-15-2006 06:34 AM
There are many more roads and bridges in the Hampton Roads area and also in Newport News, Virginia. There is also a Gus Grissom Branch Library. |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-15-2006 06:36 AM
There is also a Virgil I. Grissom Elementary school in Rochester, New York. I remember when Betty Grissom was there for the official opening.John H. Glenn school in Gates, New York as well. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2939
From: Titusville, FL
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 07:09 AM
Here in Brevard County we have many roads named after astronauts.I worked on Challenger Avenue, and not far from me are roads named after Grissom, White, Chaffee, Shepard, Armstrong, Glenn. At Patrick AFB, there's Edward H. White II Street. In Merritt Island there's Borman Avenue. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3450
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-15-2006 07:58 AM
Jackson, New Jersey has a Christa McAuliffe Middle School.SUNY-Stony Brook has Challenger Hall, Discovery Hall, and Endeavour Hall. McGuire AFB's four schools, once given numbers, are named Columbia, Challenger, Discovery and Atlantis. Princeton University has a James D. McDonnell Hall, with a model of the Mercury capsule (desktop sized). Story Musgrave did a prsentation there and I think I was the only to notice that... |
teachspace
Member Posts: 77
From: river edge, nj usa
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 11-15-2006 08:12 AM
There's a Challenger Road in Teaneck, New Jersey and a Challenger Center in Paramus, New Jersey. There's also a Schirra Drive in Oradell. |
Schuh
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Registered: May 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 09:02 AM
Edward White Dr. and Roger Chaffee Dr. in Amherst, NY (suburb of Buffalo). There was also a Virgil Grissom Dr., but I believe that was closed off by new development off Niagara Falls Blvd. |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1232
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 11-15-2006 09:27 AM
In addition to Grissom High School, Huntsville, Alabama also has Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School, Ed White Middle School, Challenger Elementary School and Columbia High School.Nearby Madison has Discovery Middle School and Columbia Elementary School. Interstate 565 through Huntsville is the Admiral Alan B. Shepard Highway. In the less-significant category, there are lesser streets with astronaut names — I know of Jan Davis Drive, Chaffee Circle and Gus Grissom Drive. (There are a couple of Whites, but I don't know whether they were intended to complete the set.) There's also some von Braun named locations here. |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-15-2006 09:46 AM
There's an M. Scott Carpenter Middle School in Westminster, Colo., and in the Philippines, in the Manila suburbs, there's a space-themed development, with the names of the Mercury astronauts. |
Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 11-15-2006 10:09 AM
In the harbor in Long Beach, California, there are four islands named after astronauts.They are artificial islands with oil drilling rigs on them. They are named Grissom, White, Chaffee and Freeman after the three astronauts who died in Apollo 1, plus Theodore Freeman who was the first member of the space program to die in the line of duty (in a T-38 trainer accident). |
MarylandSpace
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posted 11-15-2006 10:30 AM
There is an A. Scott Crossfield Elementary School in Herndon, Virginia. Crossfield is one of my all time favorites. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3450
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-15-2006 11:48 AM
There's a Challenger Way in Brick, New Jersey that was dedicated by Terry Hart in 1987.According to the website for the McAuliffe school in Jackson, it was built in 1993 and houses "real moon rocks" — probably the samples that are distributed. In Ocean Township (Monmouth Co.), off Route 35 is a development with an Armstrong Blvd., Aldrin Rd., Collins Ave., and Apollo Rd. |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-15-2006 12:36 PM
I remember there being an Ed White Elemntary school near Johnson Space Center, in the neighborhood where many NASA folks live. Also, just outside Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, is Colonel Glenn Highway (technically it's in Beavercreek). And not to state the obvious, but Glenn Research Center is an awfully visible memorial named site. |
sfurtaw
Member Posts: 104
From: Saginaw, MI USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 11-15-2006 01:35 PM
In Bay City, Michigan there is a Christa McAuliffe Middle School and a John Glenn High School. There is also a neighborhood in Thomas Township, Michigan (in Saginaw County) containing Grissom Court, Stafford Drive, McDivitt Court and Schirra Drive. |
SVaughan
Member Posts: 42
From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 11-15-2006 01:39 PM
There's a Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in North York (a suburb of Toronto) and a Roberta Bondar Park in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. |
MB
Member Posts: 165
From: Olmsted Falls, Ohio U.S.A.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 01:45 PM
There is a John Glenn School in Seven Hills, Ohio (outside of Cleveland). Also, a one mile portion of Interstate 480 which runs north of the NASA Glenn Research Center is named "Senator Glenn Highway." |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 05:04 PM
Here in Syracuse, we have John Glenn Boulevard, a major artery and Gordon Cooper Drive, a quiet country lane. We also have Col. Eileen Collins Boulevard, the access road to the the local airport. Col. Collins went to Syracuse University. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3171
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-15-2006 05:56 PM
There is an 'Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street' in Los Angeles. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 09:40 PM
I'm surprised nobody has listed any of the Neil Armstrong schools out there. There has to be many of them... a quick internet search for "Neil Armstrong school" brought up several. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1675
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 10:03 PM
Neil Armstrong elementary or middle school in San Ramon, California. |
ringo67
Member Posts: 191
From: Seekonk, Mass., USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 11-16-2006 12:30 AM
There's a Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, New Hampshire, as well as the Christa McAuliffe Challenger Center at her alma mater, Framingham (Mass.) State College. |
star61
Member Posts: 301
From: Bristol UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 11-16-2006 05:05 AM
I live in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, where J.K. Rowling was born. As you leave here to go to Bristol you will drive down Armstrong Way. Are there any more astronaut memorials in the UK? |
DavidH
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 11-16-2006 09:52 AM
There's an Owen K. Garriott Road in Enid, Oklahoma.In fact, I would bet if someone were to do the research, there's probably a decent number of namesake roads in astronaut hometowns. |
Prospero
Member Posts: 94
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-16-2006 01:52 PM
Funnily enough, the first Briton in space (Helen Sharman) has a school named after her — but it's in the Netherlands. There is also a pub round my way (Manchester in England) called the Apollo; the sign shows a Saturn V taking off. I've never been in this particular pub, it looks a bit scruffy, but if it's ever demolished I'll be sure to nick the sign before the other looters get in. |
CAC
Member Posts: 73
From: Maumelle, Arkansas, USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 11-16-2006 03:14 PM
The Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee, Oklahoma. |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 600
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 11-16-2006 11:40 PM
I've read about a Sidney-Guttierez Middle-School in Roswell, New Mexico. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3171
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-17-2006 12:36 AM
As David Hitt attests, a number of schools in Huntsville — reading the local paper is quite odd, with all the references to "Grissom alums" and "White Alums" |
albatron
Member Posts: 2804
From: Stuart, Florida
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 11-17-2006 10:21 AM
County Road 19-A that runs north from Hwy. 441 into Eustis, Florida is David Walker Highway. |
teachspace
Member Posts: 77
From: river edge, nj usa
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 11-17-2006 11:02 AM
There's a Polansky Park in Edison, New Jersey. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 741
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-18-2006 08:16 AM
There's a high school named for Ed White in Jacksonville, Florida.There's a memorial park for Ron McNair in his hometown of Lake City, South Carolina, and his remains were relocated to it a few years ago. There's also a park established in Dr. McNair's honor in Brooklyn, New York. The interchange of Interstate 26 and Interstate 95 in South Carolina is named in honor of Frank Culbertson. The Augusta (Georgia) Museum of History has the "Susan L. Still Discovery Gallery," named in honor of the Augusta native (and established with a gift from her parents; her father is a prominent doctor in Augusta). There are more, but those are the ones I know best, from personal experience and local pride. |
randy
Member Posts: 2327
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-18-2006 09:58 AM
In Utah, there is a [Alan] Shepard Lane in Farmington and Neil Armstrong Drive in Salt Lake City. West Jordan has Columbia Elementary. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 741
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-18-2006 11:55 AM
One more I remembered: Fort Lauderdale, FL has a Brent Jett Boulevard. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-19-2006 12:41 PM
According to Wikipedia, there are the following schools named after Christa McAuliffe: - Bakersfield, California
- Los Alamitos, California
- Oceanside, California
- Oxnard, California
- Riverside, California
- Saratoga, California
- Greeley, Colorado
- Palm Bay, Florida
- Boynton Beach, Florida
- Tinley Park, Illinois
- Evansville, Indiana
- Lenexa, Kansas
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Bangor, Maine
- Germantown, Maryland
- Lowell, Massachusetts
- Hastings, Minnesota
- Elizabeth, New Jersey
- Jackson, New Jersey
- Jersey City, New Jersey
- Brooklyn, New York
- New York City (Jackson Heights, Queens)
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Highland Village, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- Richardson, Texas
- San Antonio, Texas
- Dale City, Virginia
- Sammamish, Washington
- Yakima, Washington
I suspect there might be more than this, however. Also, according to Wikipedia, the following were named after the Challenger astronauts: - Dick Scobee: He attended Auburn Senior High School, Cascade Middle School, and North Auburn Elementary School in Auburn, Washington. He gratuated in 1957. After the Challenger explosion, North Auburn Elementary School was re-named Dick Scobee Elementary School in his honor. Auburn Municipal Airport was also renamed toDick Scobee Field. Dick Scobee Road in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was also named in his honor. Also located nearby in Myrtle Beach are Ronald McNair Boulevard and Christa McAuliffe Street.
- Judith Resnik: The Resnik crater, located within the Apollo impact basin on the far side of the Moon, was named in her honor. A dormitory at Carnegie Mellon is named in her honor and there is a statue commemorating her on the grounds as well. Fairlawn Elementary School in her hometown of Akron will be renamed to Judith Resnik Elementary School when it reopens in 2007. There is also an elementary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland named in her honor, having been opened in 1992.
- Ellison Onizuka: Onizuka Air Force Station in Sunnyvale, California, Onizuka Center for International Astronomy at the Mauna Kea Observatory and the Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center at Kona International Airport in Hawaii are named after him. Two astronomical features were also named after him: an asteroid discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell on February 8, 1984, 3355 Onizuka and a 29 km diameter crater on the moon, Onizuka Crater. Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, California also has a street named after him, as does the street surrounding Whitcomb Elementary in Clear Lake (Houston) Texas, where his daughters attended school at the time of the Challenger disaster.
- Ron McNair: A variety of public places have been renamed in honor of Dr. McNair. The McNair crater on the Moon is named in his honor. Ronald McNair Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is named in his honor and lies near other streets named for astronauts who perished in the Challenger crash. Also, the U.S. Department of Education offers the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program for disadvantaged students. In Florence, South Carolina, there is a Ronald McNair Math and Science Center at Francis Marion University. Several K-12 schools have also been named after McNair. Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, Ronald E. McNair High School in Atlanta, Georgia, Ronald McNair Middle School in College Park, Georgia, Ronald McNair Elementary School in University City, Missouri, Ronald E. McNair Elementary School in Dallas, Texas (Dallas ISD), and Edison Ronald McNair Middle School in East Palo Alto, California are all named in his honor. A building on the Willowridge High School campus in Houston, Texas is named in honor of Dr. McNair. There is a memorial in Ronald McNair Park in Brooklyn, New York. Inside the Davis Planetarium in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, the Ronald E. McNair Space Theater is named in his honor. The Engineering building at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC is named in his honor. At MIT, the McNair Building is named after him, it houses the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. The McNair Scholars Program at the University of Alabama awards research money and internships to first-generation and otherwise under-represented UA students.
- Greg Jarvis: SUNY at Buffalo now has a building, Jarvis Hall, named after him, which is devoted largely to engineering support services.
I couldn't find any reference to memorials name after Mike Smith, but I would assume he also has a crater on the moon named after him.Also, while on the subject of lunar craters, let's not forget the craters named after Grissom, White, and Chaffee. |
Michael Cassutt
Member Posts: 361
From: Studio City CA USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 11-19-2006 10:39 PM
There is a John Glenn Junior High School in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. It was the first facility named for him, in February 1962. I know because my mother taught there... and I wound up with the picture Glenn sent them to acknowledge the honor. (And sometime around 1993 got to talk to him about it... turns out his daughter wound up living in St. Paul and knew the school, too.) |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-20-2006 11:47 AM
That's a neat story, Michael. The M. Scott Carpenter school in Colorado (I learned from the files in the NASA history office) was built and named later than Glenn's, the fall of 1966, if I recall correctly. And it was an elementary school then. |
Lola Morrow
Member Posts: 40
From: Denver Co USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 12-01-2006 10:51 PM
The Loveland, Colorado airport is named the Vance D. Brand. Having just returned from the Cape yesterday after weeks of visiting old space friends, I noticed the whole area has streets named after the guys from the Cape to Melbourne. It was difficult to keep up with them all. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 12-04-2006 06:28 PM
The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation in Indiana has a Virgil I. Grissom Middle School (built in 1968). They are known as the "Guards".Walkerton, Indiana (there is only one other Walkerton on the North American continent in Canada) has the John H. Glenn High School and it may even be the John Glenn School Corporation according to some websites. Glenn's mascot or sports teams are known as The Falcons. |
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