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Today is NASA's Day of Remembrance. Its done to honor the astronauts lost during the Apollo 1 fire, the Challenger accident, and the Columbia accident
Note: - I will not be showing images of the actual accidents themselves. You can find that relatively easily on Wikipedia if you want

The Apollo 1 fire happened on January 27, 1967.



On board were Virgil I "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee



The Challenger accident happened on January 28th, 1986.

The crew consisted of Commander Francis "Dick" Scobee, Pilot Michael J Smith, Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist Ronald McNair, Payload Specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe, and Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis.


The Columbia accident happened on Feburary 1, 2003

The crew consisted of Commander Rick Husband (Air Force Colonel), Pilot William McCool (Navy Commander),Payload Commander Michael Anderson (Air Force Lieutenant colonel), Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon (Israeli's first astronaut, Israeli Air Force Colonel), Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist David Brown (Navy Captain), and Mission Specialist Laurel Clark (US Navy Captain)

Remember them not for how they died but for those ideals for which they lived.

Ad Astra Per Aspera