The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is hosting an event for NASA’s Day of Remembrance in honor of the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The event will begin Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 10:00 a.m.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Deputy Director Jody Singer and former NASA astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson are scheduled to speak. The U.S. Army Materiel Command Band’s Arsenal Brass will perform.
The public event follows a candle-lighting ceremony Tuesday morning at Marshall Space Flight Center.
NASA’s Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 launch rehearsal fire that took the lives of astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White II and Roger Chaffee on Jan. 27, 1967.
The Day of Remembrance event takes place at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration’s Apollo Courtyard. The public is invited to attend.
