Tragedy on a Winter's Morning, four years later
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Wed, 2007-01-31 20:43.
February 1st marks the fourth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia breaking apart over Texas. It would be nearly 2 1/2 years before the Discovery returned to space, in June of 2005.
I posted on the day it happened, “I am in tears this morning, flooded with memories of the first shuttle we lost.”
Apart from its tragic ending, there were several unique aspects of STS-107 mission, including having as a crew member the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon. Carried with him was a copy of a drawing done by Auschwitz victim Petr Ginz, showing the Earth from the viewpoint of the moon.
Wikipedia articles:
Other links:
- NASA STS-107 memorial page
- Moon Landscape drawing by Petr Ginz, part of a memorial website for Ilan Ramon.
- STS-107 Experiments Survive
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