President Reagan Honored From Space by ISS Crew
FYI,
"President Reagan Honored From Space by Crew of International Space
Station"
NASA Press Release via SpaceRef
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14381
Image: Astronaut Michael Finke rings the ISS ship's bell 40 times in
honor of Ronald Reagan
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2004/06.10.04.iss.reagan.jpg
: Astronaut Mike Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka paid tribute to
: President Ronald Reagan during a video downlink message from the
: International Space Station. The following is text of that message:
: "We, the crew of the International Space Station, join millions of
: others in mourning the passing of President Reagan, who worked
: tirelessly to bring the world closer together," Padalka said.
: "President Reagan proposed building the Space Station," Fincke said,
: "which Gennady and I are privileged to be working aboard today for
: the benefit of all humankind. He spoke to astronauts in space during
: his tenure in the White House, greeted the crew of Columbia at
: Edwards Air Force Base after its fourth voyage and mourned the loss
: of the Challenger crew along with the rest of us.
: "President Reagan realized that freedom would ring in a new era of
: International cooperation and with his vision guiding us, the United
: States again began to work with our former Cold War rivals, the
: Russians. Within a decade, the American Space Shuttle Atlantis
: docked to the Russian Mir Space Station, and President Reagan's
: Space Station Freedom became the International Space Station.
: "As the ninth expedition to the International Space Station, and in
: honor of President Ronald Reagan, our 40th president, we remember
: him on behalf of all of NASA with 40 chimes of the ISS's ship's
: bell. We all mourn his passing as freedom loving people around the
: world. God bless him, and God bless America."
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Mark Reiff <markreiff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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