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.