Gregory B. Jarvis and Roger B. Chaffee Memorial

Gregory B. Jarvis and Roger B. Chaffee Memorial. . , , Gregory B. Jarvis , August 24, 1944 , January 28, 1986 , , Born in Detroit Michigan, Payload Specialist, Gregory Jarvis and his crew members, Ellison Onizuka, Michael Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Francis Scobee, Ronald McNair and Judith Resnick lost their lives on January 28, 1986. Shortly after launch from Cape Kennedy, Florida, an explosion consumed their Challenger space shuttle. , , , Roger B. Chaffee , February 15, 1935 , January 27, 1967 , , Born in Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt. Commander U.S.N. Roger Chaffee and fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White lost their lives on January 27, 1967, at Cape Kennedy, Florida. A flash fire consumed their Apollo spacecraft during a full scale simulation in preparation for the scheduled launch on their Apollo mission. , , , Oh, I have slipped , The surly bonds of earth, , And danced the skies , On laughter-silvered wings; , Sunward I've climbed. , And joined the tumbling mirth , Of sun-split clouds, , And done a hundred things , You have not dreamed of, , Wheeled and soared and swung , High in the sunlit silence. , Hov'ring there , I've chased the shouting wind , Along and flung , My eager craft , Through footless halls of air, , Up, up the long delirious , Burning blue , I've topped the wind-swept heights , With easy grace, , Where never lark, , Or even eagle, flew; , And, while with silent, , Lifting mind I've trod , The high untrespassed sanctity , Of space, , Put out my hand, , And touched the face of God.