NASA honors fallen astronauts on 'Day of Remembrance'

 NASA honors fallen astronauts on 'Day of Remembrance'

NASA honors fallen astronauts on 'Day of Remembrance'
(NASA)
NASA honored its fallen space explorers during its annual "Day of Remembrance" on Thursday (Jan. 23). The agency held events at a number of its facilities around the nation, including Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida and Johnson Space Center in Houston. The proceedings commemorated the lives lost in NASA's three space tragedies - the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, the space shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986 and the shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003.
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