By Edgar on February 4th, 2015
  • This image of the STS-107 shuttle Columbia crew in orbit was recovered from wreckage inside an undeveloped film canister. From left bottom row, Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon. From left top row, David Brown, William McCool and Michael Anderson.
    This image of the STS-107 shuttle Columbia crew in orbit was recovered from wreckage inside an undeveloped film canister. From left bottom row, Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon. From left top row, David Brown, William McCool and Michael Anderson.
    By Mike Wall
     
    NASA honored its fallen astronauts with a special day of remembrance Wednesday Jan. 28, the 29th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy. Space agency officials conducted ceremonies at several different sites around the country during the annual event, to pay tribute to the three crewmembers killed in 1967’s Apollo 1 fire, the seven astronauts lost when Challenger exploded in 1986 and the seven crewmembers who died when the shuttle Columbia broke apart upon reentry to Earths atmosphere in 2003.