CU Challenger, Columbia Memorial Event To Be Held February 3

January 30, 2019 – The annual memorial occasion can be held on the College of Colorado Boulder campus at 9:39 a.m. Sunday, February three, to honor the astronauts who perished within the Challenger and Columbia disasters.

The occasion will start in entrance of the Regent Administrative Middle. Air Drive ROTC cadets can be conducting a silent march from there to the Columbia and Challenger memorials in Kittredge and to Col. Ellison Onizuka’s plaque by the Engineering Middle. Onizuka, of the Challenger, was a member of CU’s AFROTC Detachment 105.

On January 28, 1986, Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, and CU Boulder alumnus and Air Drive ROTC Detachment 105 graduate Ellison Onizuka misplaced their lives within the Challenger catastrophe.

The occasion may also honor those that perished throughout the February 1, 2003, house shuttle Columbia mission: Rick D. Husband, William C McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon and Kalpana Chawla, who earned her PhD from CU Boulder.