In Memorial

Apollo 1

January 27, 1967

Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White II, Roger Chaffee

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And Danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings:
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence: hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while the silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee, Jr
September 3,1941

Shuttle Challenger

January 28, 1986

Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik , Ronald E. McNair
Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis
Sharon Christa McAuliffe

Shuttle Columbia

February 1, 2003

Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool
Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown
Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon



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