{"id":277,"date":"2013-01-29T02:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2013-01-29T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:27:07","slug":"a-week-of-remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"A week of remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks anniversaries for three tragedies for NASA and the United States:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/planetary\/lunar\/apollo1info.html\" target=\"_d\">Apollo 1<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; January 27, 1967\u00a0 &#8211; a fire in their capsule during a test on the pad kills three Apollo astronauts:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/grissom-vi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gus Grissom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/white-eh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ed White<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/chaffee-rb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Chaffee<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/sts51l.html\" target=\"_d\">Challenger STS 51-L<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 January 28, 1986 &#8211; leak in a seal between segments of a solid fuel rocket booster led to the failure of the vehicle during launch and the deaths of the crew members:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/scobee.html\">Francis R. Scobee &#8211; Commander<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/smith-michael.html\">Michael J. Smith &#8211; Pilot <\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/resnik.html\">Judith A. Resnik &#8211; Mission Specialist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/onizuka.html\">Ellison S. Onizuka &#8211; Mission Specialist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/mcnair.html\">Ronald E. McNair &#8211; Mission Specialist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/jarvis.html\">Gregory B. Jarvis &#8211; Payload Specialist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/mcauliffe.html\">Sharon Christa McAuliffe &#8211; Payload Specialist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">Columbia STS-107<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; February 1, 2003 &#8211; damage from falling ice, which had built up on the top of the external tank, to a thermal protection panel\u00a0 on the wing led to failure of the wing during re-entry and the deaths of the crew members:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/Husband.htm\">Rick D. Husband &#8211; Commander<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/McCool.htm\">William C. McCool &#8211; Pilot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/Anderson.htm\">Michael P. Anderson &#8211; Payload Commander<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/Brown.htm\">David Brown &#8211; Mission Specialist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/Chawla.htm\">Kalpana Chawla &#8211; Mission Specialist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/Clark.htm\">Laurel Blair Salton Clark\u00a0 &#8211; Mission Specialist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/columbia\/Troxell\/Columbia%20Web%20Site\/Biographies\/Crew%20Profile%20Information\/Crew%20Profiles\/Ramon.htm\">Ilan Ramon &#8211;\u00a0 Payload Specialist <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a sampling of articles and commentary about these events (I will be adding more as the week goes by):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>General:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/27\/16716338-nasa-celebrates-its-fallen-astronauts\" target=\"_d\">NASA celebrates its fallen astronauts &#8211; Cosmic Log<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Apollo 1:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/17338-apollo-1.html\" target=\"_d\">Apollo 1: The Fatal Fire &#8211; Space.com <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lightsinthedark.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/27\/the-tragedy-of-apollo-1\/\" target=\"_d\">The Tragedy of Apollo 1 &#8211; Lights in the Dark<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Challenger:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transterrestrial.com\/?p=47319\" target=\"_d\">Twenty-Seven Years &#8211; Transterrestrial Musings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Columbia:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesafetymagazine.com\/2013\/01\/29\/columbia-disaster-space-program-safety\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SpaceSafetyMagazine+%28Space+Safety+Magazine%29\" target=\"_d\">The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety &#8211; Space Safety Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzPkRz9Eqow?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks anniversaries for three tragedies for NASA and the United States: Apollo 1 &#8211; January 27, 1967\u00a0 &#8211; a fire in their capsule during a test on the pad kills three Apollo astronauts: Gus Grissom Ed White Roger Chaffee Challenger STS 51-L &#8211;\u00a0 January 28, 1986 &#8211; leak in a seal between segments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A week of remembering<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17281,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17281","url_meta":{"origin":277,"position":0},"title":"Listening to &#8220;Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"December 21st will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 8, the first time humans left earth orbit to reach another celestial object. 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