NASA 'Day of Remembrance' marks 20 years since space shuttle Columbia tragedy

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Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

cut through the surface of the 42.5-foot-high by 50-foot-wide monument's polished black granite, such that light can shine through from behind.

NASA associate administrator Bob Cabana, Kennedy Space Center director Janet Petro and The Astronauts Memorial Foundation chair Sheryl Chaffee position a wreath dedicated to"Remembering Our Fallen Heroes" at the base of the Space Mirror Memorial in Florida on NASA's Day of Remembrance, Jan. 26, 2023., it was found that by NASA diverting from its own stated flight rules, lives were lost.

NASA also marked the Day of Remembrance and 20th anniversary of the STS-107 tragedy at other ceremonies around the country.in Houston, a T-38 jet flyover concluded a commemoration held at the center's Astronaut Memorial Grove, where trees have been planted for each member of the NASA astronaut corps who have died. Similar wreath and flag-laying ceremonies took place at Langley Research Center in Virginia, Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and Stennis Space Flight Center in Mississippi.

The employees at Ames Research Center in California observed a moment of silence, while Glenn Research Center planned a panel discussion on safety with aeronautics and spaceflight experts.The Space Mirror Memorial at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida honors 26 fallen astronauts, including the crew of STS-107, who were lost aboard the space shuttle Columbia 20 years ago on Feb. 1, 2003.

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