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For Columbia and her crew...
It´s been a long road, getting from
there to here. Cause I´ve got faith of the heart. (Russell Watson - Theme to "Enterprise")
We here at PCFootball.net would like to express our condolences to the friends and families of the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia, which was lost upon re-entry, Saturday, February 1, 2003. It was a tragic day for our nation as well as our friends around the world. We wish to pay tribute to the seven heroes who were lost on that day, now and for all time:
Crew bios found at msnbc.com.
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his belt before he was given the role of commander.
"I think a lot of it has to do with being in the
right place at the right time, for starters,"
Husband, a 45-year-old Air Force colonel from Amarillo,
Texas, said during a preflight interview. The former test
pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth
try. Space flight was his lifelong passion, along with
singing. Husband, a baritone, had barbershop quartet
experience and sang in church choirs.
training was learning to draw blood — from others.
Columbia’s two pilots were exempted from invasive
medical tests in orbit, like blood draws. That meant he
and his commander had to draw blood from their crewmates.
McCool felt bad practicing on volunteers. "I didn’t
want to inflict pain," he said before the flight. The
former Navy test pilot became an astronaut in 1996. This
was the first space flight for McCool, 41, who grew up in
Lubbock, Texas.
aircraft and spacecraft, but he disliked being launched.
"There’s always that unknown," he said before
the flight. Anderson, 43, the son of an Air Force man,
grew up on military bases. He was flying for the Air Force
when NASA chose him in 1994 as one of only a handful of
black astronauts. He traveled to Russia’s Mir space
station in 1998. He was a lieutenant colonel and in charge
of Columbia’s dozens of experiments. His hometown was
Spokane, Wash.
when she emigrated to the United States from India in the
1980s. The space program was the furthest thing from her
mind. But "one thing led to another," the
41-year-old engineer said, and she was chosen as an
astronaut in 1994. On her only other space flight, in
1996, Chawla made mistakes that sent a satellite tumbling
out of control, and two spacewalkers had to go out and
capture it. Some saw this flight as her chance to redeem
herself.
well as a doctor. He was also probably the only NASA
astronaut to have worked as a circus acrobat. (It was a
summer job during college.) He said what he learned about
"the teamwork and the safety and the staying
focused" carried over to his space job. He joined the
Navy after his medical internship, and held a captain's
rank. NASA chose him as an astronaut in 1996. This was the
46-year-old Virginia native's first space flight.
undersea, likened Columbia's numerous launch delays to a
marathon in which the finish line kept moving out five
miles. "You’ve got to slow back down and maintain a
pace," she said. The 41-year-old Clark was a diving
medical officer aboard submarines and then a naval flight
surgeon. She became an astronaut in 1996. Clark's chief
task was to help with Columbia’s science experiments.
Her hometown was Racine, Wis.
force, was the first Israeli to be launched into space.
His mother and grandmother survived the Auschwitz death
camp. Like his Zionist father, the astronaut fought for
his country, in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon
War in 1982. He took part in the 1981 air strike that
destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor. Ramon, 48, was
selected as an astronaut in 1997 and moved to Houston in
1998 to train for a flight. He called Tel Aviv home.
