THE SPACE EXPLORERS MEMORIAL PAGE
This page is dedicated to the many brave space explorers (astronauts, cosmonauts and test pilots) who have given their lives in the space program. I pray it will never need to be updated again.
HIGH
FLIGHT
"Oh!
I have slipped the surley bonds of Earth
And
danced the skies of laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward
I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds, and done a
hundred things you have not dreamed of
-Wheeled
and soared and swung high in the sunlight silence
Hovering
there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through
footless halls of air...
Up,
up the long delirious, burning blue
I've
topped the wind swept heights with easy grace
where
never lark, or even eagle flew-
And,
while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
the
high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put
out my hand, and touched the face of God".
Pilot
Officer John Macgee, Jr.
APOLLO 1 AS204 January 27, 1967
CHALLENGER STS 51-L January 28, 1986
COLUMBIA STS-107 February 1, 2003
RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS April 24, 1967 & June 30, 1971
Aircraft Accidents Involving Test Pilots, Astronauts and Cosmonauts
A Very Good Link
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation