NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Feb. 1

Jan. 28, 2013

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-2191
allard.beutel@nasa.gov


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NASA OBSERVES DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FEB. 1

WASHINGTON -- NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and
space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA
colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Friday, Feb. 1,
the 10th anniversary of the Columbia accident.

NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost
their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.
Flags across the agency will be flown at half-staff in their memory.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other NASA senior officials will
hold an observance at the astronaut memorial at Arlington National
Cemetery Friday morning.

At 10 a.m. EST, NASA Television will provide live coverage of a
wreath-laying ceremony at the Space Mirror Memorial located in the
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The observance is
hosted by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.

Ceremony speakers include NASA Associate Administrator Robert
Lightfoot; William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for
human exploration and operations; Robert Cabana, director of NASA's
Kennedy Space Center; Thad Altman, president and chief executive
officer of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation; Jon McBride, chairman
of the board of directors of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation; Mick
Ukleja, chairman of the board of trustees of the Astronauts Memorial
Foundation; Evelyn Husband-Thompson, widow of Col. Rick Husband, who
was commander of space shuttle Columbia's final mission, STS-107, in
2003; and Eileen Collins, commander of shuttle Discovery for the
mission in 2005 that returned shuttles to flight after the Columbia
accident.

The Astronauts Memorial Foundation is a private, not-for-profit
organization which built and maintains the Space Mirror Memorial. The
mirror was dedicated in 1991 to honor all astronauts who lost their
lives on missions or during training. It has been designated a
National Memorial by Congress.

NASA also is paying tribute to the agency's fallen astronauts with
special online content available at:


http://go.nasa.gov/XNe5MU

For NASA Television downlink information, schedule information and
streaming video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


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