#laurel clark

[exceli]

"Christina Koch represents all the women who lost their lives in the pursuit of reaching beyond our world." 💔

[lully-jo]

I do not think a day has passed that I haven't just had big hot tears about the Artemis II mission and god I am praying to every soul to protect those 4 as they return to our blue marble. Protect them Laika Protect them Félicette Protect them Gus Grissom Protect them Edward H. White Protect them Roger B. Chaffee Protect them Dick Scobee Protect them Michael J. Smith Protect them Ronald McNair Protect them Ellison Onizuka Protect them Judith Resnik Protect them Gregory Jarvis Protect them Christa McAuliffe Protect them Rick Husband Protect them William C. McCool Protect them Michael P. Anderson Protect them Kalpana Chawla Protect them David M. Brown Protect them Laurel Clark Protect them Ilan Ramon

[cns-mari]

okay mari let's put down all this research on the 2003 Columbia tragedy you're gonna fall into a hole and make yourself cry again over 7 dead astronauts lets not do that please

[gusgrissom]

Sixteen minutes from home. Remembering the crew of Columbia STS-107, twenty years ago today.

Colonel Rick Douglas Husband, USAF (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003)

Commander William Cameron McCool, USN (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003)

Captain David McDowell Brown, USN (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003)

Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003)

Lieutenant Colonel Michael Phillip Anderson, USAF (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003)

Captain Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D., USN (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003)

Colonel Ilan Ramon, IAF (June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003)

[rickhusband]

Although this week is always a sad one as we remember the sacrifices of the fallen astronauts, here’s a happy picture of the STS-107 crew celebrating their upcoming mission. I always prefer to celebrate the astronauts’ lives and their accomplishments while they were alive, instead of focusing on the tragedy of the day. I think many in the space community feel the same way.

[ridethecyanide]

February 1, 2003: 17 years ago today - David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla , Michael Anderson, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon perish when their space shuttle, Columbia, broke apart during reentry.

May they RIP ❤️

[gregorygalloway]

Laurel Clark (born Ames, IA, 10 March 1961 – 1 February 2003) 

[humanoidhistory]

Remembering astronaut Dr. Laurel Clark, born on March 10, 1961 in Ames, Iowa. After a 16-day mission in space, she perished in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003.

(NASA)