Well said Charlie Dave,
Hail Columbia, Challenger, Soyuz-11, X-15A, Soyuz-1, and Apollo-1. Twenty-one Spacepersons and one School teacher-astronaut should have a Space Memorial Day. Write your Congressperson, candidate, Prime Minister, President. How about an international Space Memorial and Veterans' Day. What a positive way to embrace humankind and discovery. If there are too many holidays, combine it in many new world countries as Explorer's Day to replace Columbus Day with Columbia Day, a more worthwhile memory, to remind us why we do this and not to repeat the lessons of the past carnage or inattention...It's not an idea to be taken likely. If there is an omission, please correct and forgive.
Saludos
Doug Dawn
Mxico
Why not engrave these names on the United Nations entrance, as well as all Chief Space administrators office chair: Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Elison Onizuka, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Judith Resnik, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsayev, Michael James Adams, Vladimir Komarov, Virgil Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chaffee.
Lest We Forget the fallen Heros:
USA: Apollo 1 (27 January 1967): In training for the space mission, the three-man crew was inside the spacecraft atop the unfuelled Saturn-1B launcher when a flash fire incinerated all three astronauts: Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
USSR: Soyuz 1 (24 April 1967): Though only one solar panel deployed, providing only half of the expected electrical power and disabling some control thrusters by the folded panel, Komarov, the single cosmonaut, was able to bring the spacecraft out of orbit after 26 hours. The re-entry module tumbled in re-entry, tangling main and back-up parachutes after deployment. Crash killed Vladimir Komarov.
USA: X-15A Rocket Plane (15 November 1967): Deadly accident, destroyed the craft. After reaching 81 km altitude, it lost control into a spin at Mach 5, diving from 30 km, began high frequency pitch oscillations, finally disintegrating when these increased to 15 G forces around the maximum speed of 5,744 km/h, killing astronaut Michael James Adams.
USSR: Soyuz 11 (30 June 1971): Upon finishing the first manned space station residency (aboard the first Salyut), the three-man Soyuz 11 crew of Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev all died when pressure was lost inside the Soyuz descent module upon return to Earth. A faulty valve opened at the time of the orbital modules separation, allowing the descent modules atmosphere to leak into space.
USA: Space Shuttle Challenger (28 January 1986): 73 seconds after launch, the external fuel tank carried on this shuttle mission exploded, the shuttle separated at 15 km height, and plunged into the sea after a two and a half minute fall, killing the seven aboard: Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Elison Onizuka, Greg Jarvis, New Hampshire School Teacher Christa McAuliffe and Judith Resnik.
USA: Space Shuttle Columbia. (01 February 2003): During re-entry, after a few minutes of flight, and deceleration to somewhat more than half the orbital velocity, developed problems over the Western United States due to frictional re-entry heating under liftoff damaged ceramic tiles near wheelwell, causing an inevitable loss of navegation control over Texas, where the craft disintegrated at aproximately 50 - 60 km altitude and 20,000 km/h, and 15 minutes before landing,height killing all seven aboard instantly: Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.
In a message dated 1/28/2004 9:04:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Date:1/28/2004 9:04:15 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Hey Dave,
Your heart was indeed in the right place, and that is what counts.
Indeed - God bless the Challenger and the Columbia crews. They would be
so excited to see the events of the past days. (Perhaps they can see it
much better !)
-CharlyV
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:55 AM
To: Michael Farmer; meteorite collectors association; meteorite-list
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] God Bless Challenger.
Dear Mike;
I don't know what makes me stupider, CNN TV news, or the flu crud. It
has changed on CNN TV now. Still not recognized on CNN on the internet.
My apologies,
Dave Freeman
chicken soup for brains
Michael Farmer wrote:
not the challenger, that was 14 years ago.
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