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Born March 17, 1962 • Karnal • India
Died February 1, 2003 (aged 40) • Louisiana • Texas
Role In “Columbia” disaster

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The last Columbia space mission
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Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
United States senator
Charles Bolden.
Charles Bolden
American astronaut
Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Skylab 3 science pilot, reconstituting a prepackaged container of food at the crew quarters' ward-room table of the Orbital Workshop (OWS) of the space station, 1973.
Owen Garriott
American astronaut
Franklin Chang-Díaz, 1997.
Franklin Chang-Díaz
Costa Rican-born American physicist and astronaut
Ellison Onizuka
American astronaut
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut
John Glenn
John Glenn
American astronaut and United States senator
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
American astronaut
Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford
American astronaut
John W. Young
John W. Young
American astronaut
Ronald McNair.
Ronald McNair
American physicist and astronaut
James A. Lovell, Jr.
Jim Lovell
American astronaut
The first teacher in space
Christa Corrigan McAuliffe
American educator
Frank Borman
Frank Borman
American astronaut
Pete Conrad
American astronaut
Robert Crippen
Robert Crippen
American astronaut
Astronaut Shannon Lucid.
Shannon Wells Lucid
American astronaut
Virgil I. Grissom, 1964.
Virgil I. Grissom
American astronaut
Edward H. White II, 1964.
Edward H. White II
American astronaut
Roger B. Chaffee, 1964.
Roger B. Chaffee
American astronaut

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