Each year on the 4th Thursday in January, NASA remembers the crew who perished in the Apollo 1 fire (1967), and the space shuttle crews who died, Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.
This is the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from one of our earlier visits.
The names of the Apollo 1 astronauts.
Grissom and Chaffee are buried in Arlington National Cemetery (White is at Westpoint) and we paid our respects at their graves last year.
We also found the memorials/graves of the shuttle crews in Arlington.
The Challenger
Their names on the Kennedy Space Center Space Mirror Memorial:
The Columbia
Their names on the Space Mirror Memorial:
The Space Mirror is part of the larger Astronauts Memorial where these can be found.
We found a small memorial to these astronauts who died so tragically at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
Rest in peace and ad astra per aspera 💔
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