NASA Annual Day of Remembrance

To honor fallen Astronauts, held annually on the fourth Thursday of January.

Commemorations are held at Arlington National Cemetery, several NASA centers, and in partnership with the Astronauts Memorial Foundation at the Space Mirror at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex.

Among those honored on Remembrance Day are the crews of Apollo 1 who died when a fire broke out in their spacecraft during a pre-launch test on January 27, 1967, Challenger who died when their space shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, and Columbia who died when their space shuttle disintegrated during reentry after a 16-day mission on February 1, 2003.

The Astronauts Memorial Foundation will hold a special screening of a new documentary on Apollo 1 on Remembrance Day.