10th Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia at KSC

The Kennedy Space Center will host a very important special event on February 1, 2013:
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Ceremony On the 10th Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (January 22, 2013) – The Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF) is holding a ceremony to honor the crew of space shuttle Columbia STS-107 in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the Columbia disaster at 10 a.m. EDT on Feb. 1, 2013. The ceremony being held at the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex celebrates and memorializes all astronauts who have sacrificed their lives for the nation and its space program.

Ceremony speakers include Thad Altman, AMF president and chief executive officer; Jon A. McBride, AMF Board of Directors chairman and former astronaut; Mick Ukleja, Ph.D., AMF Board of Trustees chairman; Evelyn Husband-Thompson, widow of Colonel Rick Husband, commander space shuttle Columbia STS-107; Eileen Collins, Return to Flight space shuttle commander; Robert D. Cabana, NASA Kennedy Space Center director and former astronaut; William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA Human Exploration and Operations associate administrator; and Robert Lightfoot, NASA associate administrator...

The Space Shuttle Columbia's crew of seven astronauts perished when Columbia broke apart during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003. The STS-107 crew included Commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson, Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, and Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown and Laurel Blair Salton Clark.

The public is invited to attend the ceremony. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will provide flowers for ceremony guests and visitors throughout the morning to place at the memorial. For more information, call 877-313-2610 or visit www.KennedySpaceCenter.com.

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It is certainly a good thing to remember those poor astronauts that lost their lives that day.