NASA will honor members of its spaceflight family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, leading up to, and during, the agency's annual Day of Remembrance on Jan. 26. This year’s NASA Day of Remembrance precedes the 20th anniversary of the Columbia accident on Feb. 1. NASA will host a town hall at the agency’s HQ in Washington at 11:30 a.m. CST on Jan. 24. The town hall will stream live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. (NASA 01/20/23)
Gulf Cost Note: Columbia mission specialist Dr. Laurel Clark, a Navy flight surgeon, was among the seven killed aboard the STS-107 mission. Dr. Clark was a colleague of mine at NAS Pensacola, Fla. She was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and promotion to the rank of captain.
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