Remembering David Beverly

NASA Johnson Space Center to Hold Memorial for David Beverly

“NASA’s Johnson Space Center will hold a memorial at 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday, April 25, to honor senior avionics systems engineer David Beverly, who was killed in a shooting incident at the center on Friday, April 20.”

Family Remembers Broken Arrow Graduate Killed in NASA Shooting, KOTV

“There is a Tulsa connection to the latest shocking case of violence in the workplace. Memorial services are set for an engineer shot and killed while working at NASA in Houston. Sixty-two- year-old David Beverly is a Broken Arrow graduate, who has family and friends in the Tulsa area. He’s being remembered for his strength and for being an encouragement to others.”

Editor’s note: Hmmm … Broken Arrow High School, Oklahoma, David Beverly’s high school. Broken Bow, Oklahoma, small town featured in the opening scene of the first episode of Star Trek Enterprise – wherein misunderstandings lead to a shooting. Reality vs fiction. I know there is no connection, but I cannot shake the irony. Hopefully, David Beverly’s name will find its way to a place of honor somewhere in our solar system – a place humans will one day visit and recall who he was and what he did. Those Mars Rovers certainly seem to be regularly discovering things which have been given names …

NASA Feedback: David Beverly and Fran Crenshaw, Earlier post