Columbia: Thinking Back – Looking Ahead, Excerpt from “New Moon Rising”, by Frank Sietzen, Jr. and Keith Cowing “At the end of the event, Rona Ramon, Ilan’s widow, spoke last. […]
Columbia
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Remembering
President Barack Obama on NASA’s Day of Remembrance, NASA “Ten years ago, seven brave astronauts gave their lives in the name of exploration when America’s first flight-ready space shuttle, Columbia, […]
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
NASA manager mused about what to tell Columbia crew if they had known space shuttle was doomed, AP “When NASA started flying shuttles again, Hale told the new team of […]
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More Will Follow
Columbia: Thinking Back – Looking Ahead, Excerpt from “New Moon Rising”, by Frank Sietzen, Jr. and Keith Cowing “At the end of the event, Rona Ramon, Ilan’s widow, spoke last. […]
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Columbia +10
Preview Video: Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope “Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope is the untold inspirational story of Colonel Ilan Ramon, a fighter pilot and son of Holocaust […]
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Challenger's Crew Mentioned By A Presidential Candidate
Keith’s note: At the beginning of 20:25 into this video, Gov. Romney repeats a story he has told about an American flag flown on Space Shuttle Challenger’s last mission at […]
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Please Help Get "An Article of Hope" on PBS and in Classrooms
An Article of Hope, Kickstarter “Dawn is breaking on the morning of February 1, 2003 above West Texas. Suddenly the peace of the early morning is shattered by two loud […]
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Memorials to Columbia on Devon Island
Twin inukshuks on Devon Island. On the left is the Challenger Inukshuk on the right is the memorial to a member of the Columbia crew. NASA Haughton-Mars Project Space Shuttle […]
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Looking Back While Looking Forward
Devon Island Journal 20 July 2003: Arctic Memorials and Starship Yearnings “Given the sheer mass of the structure, and the slow manner with which things change here, this inukshuk may […]
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NASA's Day of Remembrance
Photo: NASA Day of Remembrance Wreath Laying Ceremony “NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA personnel, and others, participate in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, […]