In memory of those who died in the line of Duty.

"Earth is the Cradle of Humanity, but one can't live in the cradle forever"- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Father of Astronautics

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See Also: Ingersoll's Vow, My view of Life.

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REACH FOR THE STARS
In Memory of Space Shuttle Challenger, 51-L flight
January 28, 1986

The seven members of the Space Shuttle 511 flight are: (Back row,left to right, Mission
Specialist Ed Onizuka, Teacher in Space Participant S. Christa McAuliffe, Payload
Specialist Greg Jarvis, and Mission Specialist Judy Resnik. (Front row, left to right)
Pilot Mike Smith, Commander Dick Scobee, and Mission Specialist Ron McNair.

Courtesy of NASA and the
National Space Council/
Aviation Space Educational Foundation
Washington, D.C. 200704033

 

Apollo I Crew, January 27th
Gus Grissom
Commander
Roger Chaffee
Lunar module pilot
Edward White
Command module pilot

Vladimir Komarov
Commander
Soyuz I Rubin
April 24th,1967

Scientists:

 

Following his curiosity Rochester's Wolf Visniac,
Shown in a 1972 Photo researh mission in the Antarctic,
fell to his death in Antarctica's Asgard Mountains in 1973

 

 

 

Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake for teaching that the earth goes around the
sun, and that the stars are other suns.

Francis Bacon, believed to have died of pneumonia contracted while researching the use of snow to preserve food.

Marie Curie, died slowly of radiation poisoning after discovering and isolating radium.

Ramanujan, died of tuberculosis contracted after traveling to Britain to do mathematics.

Louis Slotin, died quickly of massive radiation poisoning during the Manhattan Project. He saved many other people's lives by prying two blocks of plutonium apart with his bare hands.

Karen Wetterhahn, died (June 1997) of mercury poisoning, while researching the toxicity of mercury.

(Honorable mentions: Galileo went blind due to looking at the sun through a telescope.

Isaac Newton is believed to have gone mad due to mercury poisoning.)


Explorers:

Ferdinand Magellan, et al, killed during the first circumnavigation of our planet.

Henry Hudson, set adrift in a small rowboat in the middle of the bay named for him, by mutineers, and never seen again.

Charles Francis Hall, died trying to reach the North Pole.

Salomon Andrée, died trying to reach the North Pole by balloon.

John Franklin, died along with his whole expedition (100+ men) while trying to find the Northwest Passage.

Robert Scott, et al, died returning from the South Pole.

Ronald Amundsen, disappeared in the Arctic, years after being the first to sail the Northwest Passage, and the first to reach the South Pole.

Alfred Wegener, a German astronomer and meteorologist, gathered the first geological evidence for continental drift (published in 1915). He died of a heart attack during an expedition to Greenland in 1930.

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