Post by glactus on Feb 16, 2008 12:16:56 GMT
Their Stars will shine forever
Space is a dangerous place. In actual space related accidents (from launch to re-entry) 14 American Astronauts have been lost in Space Shuttle accidents, and four Russian Cosmonauts have been lost during the Soyuz progam. In addition to that, three American Astronauts were lost in a training progam involving the Apollo series.
But these exceptional people carry on, if there is fear in what they do, they keep it to themselves. When they think of their loved ones, wives and children, they keep those feelings to themselves also.
Training is so precise in mind and body and their focus so refined that they have but one objective - To blaze a new trail into the heavens, to go where no man has been before, to sow the seeds of humankind in far distant worlds, and to follow the whispers that are calling them from deep into the Cosmos.
Below is a list of those who have been lost as we blaze that cosmic trail. Even in centuries hence, we will never forget them.
January 27th 1967. Cape Canaveral training exercise:
United States Astronauts
Roger Chaffee
Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Jan 28th 1986. Space Shuttle Challenger after liftoff:
United States Astronauts
Gregory Jarvis
Michael Smith
Ronald McNair
Ellison Onizuka
Judith Resnik
Francis Scobee
Sharon McAuliffe
1st February 2003. Space Shuttle Columbia on re-entry:
United States Astronauts
Michael Anderson
David Brown
Kalpana Chawla
laurel Clark
Rick Husband
William McCool
Iian Ramon
April 29th 1967. Soyuz parachute failure
Russian Cosmonaut
Valdimir Koarov
June 21st 1971. Soyuz 11 re-entry and landing failure.
Russian Cosmonauts
Viktor Patsayev
Georgi Drobrovolsky
Valdimir Volkov
Their stars will shine forever.
Image credit: Nasa
