A Tribute to the Men and Women of America's Space Program
Your Host: DANA M. CRIST
"....There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
"We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon....We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."-President John Fitzgerald Kennedy at Rice University, September 12, 1962
IN MEMORIUM
Theodore C. Freeman
Elliot M. See, Jr.
Charles A. Bassett II
Edward G. Givens, Jr.
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom
Edward H. White II
Roger B. Chaffee
Clifton C. "C.C" Williams
Michael J. Adams
Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.
Francis R. Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ellison S. Onizuka
Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Manley L. "Sonny" Carter, Jr.
Charles P. "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
Donn F. Eisele
Ronald E. Evans
David Griggs
Karl G. Henize
James B. Irwin
Michael V. "Mike" Love
John B. "Jack" McKay
Robert F. Overmyer
Forrest S. "Pete" Peterson
Stuart A. "Stu" Roosa
Robert A. "Bob" Rushworth
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Donald K. "Deke" Slayton
John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr.
Milton O. "Milt" Thompson
Stephen D. Thorne
Charles L. Veach
David M. "Dave" Walker
Joseph A. "Joe" Walker
Harrison H. Schmitt, Taurus-Littrow, December, 1972. NASA Photo
This site is for informational and educational purposes only. It is NOT sanctioned by NASA or any of the astronauts.
It is simply my tribute to them.
