Apollo 1
Virgil Grissom
Ed White II
Roger Chaffee
White's Medal of Honor
Chaffee's Medal of Honor

Soyuz 1
Vladimir Komarov

Soyuz 11
Georgi Dobrovolsky
Viktor Patsayev
Vladislav Volkov

Challenger STS-51L
Francis Scobee
Michael Smith
Ellison Onizuka
Ronald McNair
Judith Resnik
Gregory Jarvis
S. Christa McAuliffe
President Reagan's Speech
Memorial Service

Columbia STS-107
Rick Husband
William McCool
David Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Michael Anderson
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
Photos
President Bush's Speech
Memorial Service

Other
Valentine Bondarenko
Ed Givens
Honorable Mention
Credits
About the Author

Credits

First I'd like to thank all who provided their input, suggested sources, and helped find my mistakes.  These people include Gregory Beat (Ed White information), Adam Bootle (pointed me in the direction of a picture of John McKay), Al Bowers (found corrections to Mike Adams' page) Colin Burgess (found corrections, made addition to "Honorable Mention", provided pictures and biography of Ed Givens, pictures of Valentin Bondarenko and Ted Freeman, information regarding Soyuz 11. His books can be found at Amazon.com and at Barnesandnoble.com. Fallen Astronauts provided many new quotes and further information not found elsewhere), Brian Lawrence (provided astronauts listed in "Honorable Mention"), Maciej S. Stolowski (provided missing middle names and a picture of John McKay), Mary Zornio (extensive Apollo 1 information), Francis S.H. Ching (made corrections to Ellison Onizuka's page), and Pat Bates (assisting in learning new software for this web site).  I would also like to thank a gentleman at the Johnson Space Center, who I will not name per his request, for providing a photo of Ron McNair playing his saxophone on the shuttle, and photos of Ed Givens and Stephen Thorne.  Finally, I'd like to thank my wife who tolerated me spending many hours on the computer putting this site together -- THANK YOU!  Other credits include:

Burgess, Colin, and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis. Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. Lincoln, Nebraska, and London, England: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Clark, Phillip.  The Soviet Manned Space Program.  New York: Orion Books, 1988.

Encyclopedia Astronautica.

Furniss, Tim.  Guinness Space Flight: The Records.  Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1985.

Harpole, Tom.  "Saint Yuri." Air & Space December 1998/January 1999: 70-77.

Hewitt, Bill, J.D. Heyman, Pam Lambert, Patrick Rogers, and Alex Tresniowski. "Farewell Columbia." People. 17 February 2003: 90-104.

Michigan's Own, Inc., Military & Space Museum. (The only museum of its kind in the United States in that it focuses on people rather than hardware. Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Chaffee has one of more than 80 showcases there. Located in Frankenmuth, Michigan, it is well worth a visit.)

NASA Biographical Data sheets.

NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Slayton, Donald "Deke", with Michael Cassult.  Deke!  U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle.  New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1994.  (This book contains information only a fellow astronaut would know.)

Staff of Washington Post.  Challengers: The Inspiring Life Stories of the Seven Brave Astronauts of Shuttle Mission 51-L.  New York: Pocket Books, 1986.

Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.