In remembrance

[plutherus]

The following are some of the people who have lost their lives in the service of mankind, to bring us into space:


Capt. Milburn G. "Mel" Apt (September 27, 1956, in crash of the X-2)

Valentin Bondarenko (March 23, 1961, in fire during training)

Theodore Freeman (Oct. 31, 1964, in training, piloting T-38 aircraft at Ellington air Force Base)

Charles Bassett (Feb. 28, 1966, in training for Gemini 9 mission, when aircraft crashed)
Elliot See (Feb. 28, 1966, in training for Gemini 9 mission, when aircraft crashed)

Roger Chaffee (Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
Virgil "Gus" Grissom (Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)
Edward White (Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)

Col. Eng. Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (April 23, 1967, in parachute malfunction causing crash on landing of Soyuz I)

Vladimir Nikolaevich Benderov (June 3, 1967, in training in crash of Tu-144)

Clifton .C. Williams (Oct. 5, 1967, in training for Gemini 10, in T-38 aircraft crash)

Michael J. Adams (November 15, 1967, his seventh flight of the X-15 crashed)

Major Robert H. Lawrence (Dec. 10, 1967: in training in a F-104 Starfighter crash at Edwards Air Force Base.)

Yuri Gagarin (March 27, 1968, in training for his second space mission when the MiG-15 he was piloting crashed)

Viktor Patsayev (Jun. 6, 1971, due to re-entry pressurization failure of Soyuz 11)
Vladislaw Volkov (Jun. 6, 1971, due to re-entry pressurization failure of Soyuz 11)
Georgi Dobrovolsky (Jun. 6, 1971, due to re-entry pressurization failure of Soyuz 11)

Leonid Georgiyevich (October 24, 1980, in training in crash of MiG-27)

Francis "Dick" Scobee (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)
Michael J. Smith (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)
Judith A. Resnick (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)
Ellison S. Onizuka (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)
Ronald E. McNair (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)
Gregory B. Jarvis (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)
S. Christa McAuliffe (January 28, 1986, in Space Shuttle Challenger during lift-off)

David M. Brown (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)
Laurel Blair Salton Clark (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)
Rick D. Husband (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)
Kalpana Chawla (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)
Michael P. Anderson (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)
Ilan Ramon (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)
William C. McCool (February 1, 2003, in Space Shuttle Columbia during re-entry)


"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only
thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
Socrates 500 B.C.