posted January 24, 2005 03:39 PM
Administrator O'Keefe will host NASA's Day of Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 2 pm EST at NASA Headquarters. This event, which will be broadcast on NASA-TV, honors those who have given their lives in the cause of exploration and discovery. NASA's Day of Remembrance was created last year to honor the brave astronauts who were lost during the Apollo 1 fire, Challenger launch and Columbia reentry. This year's event also memorializes the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees who died in a tragic vanpool accident in December.NASA Centers will conduct a variety of activities:
-- At the Glenn Research Center a wreath will be placed at the base of the astronaut memorial wall in the lobby of the Visitor Center.
-- At the Stennis Space Center a wreath will be placed at the Apollo/Challenger/Columbia mosaic memorial in StennisSphere, the visitor center at Stennis.
-- Marshall Space Flight Center will hang a Columbia memorial plaque in the lobby of the Headquarters Building.
-- At the Johnson Space Center as employees will gather in the mall area or at the flagpoles, bells will sound over the center wide PA system to represent the lost members of the NASA family. This will be followed by a moment of silence and a flyover in a missing man formation.
-- The Ames Research Center will conduct a memorial event in the Center's cafeteria. In the ceremony a moment of silence will be followed by remarks by Center Director G. Scott Hubbard about our remembrance of the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crews and about what NASA has learned from the Columbia tragedy and will do in the future to enhance mission safety.
-- The Kennedy Space Center will observe a moment of silence at noon. Also, on Tuesday, Feb. 1, a public memorial service hosted by the Astronaut Memorial Foundation will be held in remembrance of the Columbia STS-107 Crew. The ceremony will take place at 9:30 a.m. at the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
posted January 24, 2005 03:39 PM
