![]() ![]() "When I look into those windows, I see John Young and Bob Crippen preparing to launch on the boldest test flight in history." "It is said the eyes are the windows to our souls, and I believe that is true for the windows of Columbia also," said Bob Cabana, Kennedy Space Center director and a former shuttle astronaut. ![]() Their thick glass panes lost when Columbia broke apart over Texas, they are displayed such that they appear to be floating in the formation they were installed on the orbiter's flight deck. (NASA)įrom Columbia, which was NASA's first space shuttle to launch in April 1981, the exhibit presents the orbiter's six forward window frames. Click to view and enlarge in a new, pop-up window. The gallery also serves as a shrine to the fallen orbiters, incorporating recovered debris from both - a first for any public memorial.įorever Remembered. "It's now time to tell the full scope of the space shuttle's achievements," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden wrote in a message to the agency's workforce, "Of the men and women who made the program great and the sacrifices of those who lost their lives to push the boundaries of human achievement."Ĭhallenger's crew included commander Dick Scobee, pilot Mike Smith, mission specialists Ron McNair, Judy Resnik and Elison Onizuka, payload specialist Gregory Jarvis and Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe.Ĭolumbia's crew included commander Rick Husband, pilot William "Willie" McCool, mission specialists David Brown, Kalpana "KC" Chawla, Michael Anderson and Laurel Clark and Israeli payload specialist Ilan Ramon. The solemn display, developed in secret over the past several years, serves to memorialize the 14 men and women who lost their lives on Challenger's and Columbia's ill-fated missions, STS-51L in 1986 and STS-107 in 2003, respectively. NASA officials joined family members of the fallen crews Saturday (June 27) to open "Forever Remembered," a new permanent exhibit installed under the retired space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Artifacts recovered from the wreckages of NASA's Challenger and Columbia space shuttles are for the first time now on public display, part of a powerful new exhibit that is intended to honor the two winged spacecraft and their fallen astronaut crews. ![]()
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