As NASA looks ahead to Mars the agency remains remembering its past

As NASA looks ahead to sending astronauts to the moon and Mars, NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor reports on why the agency is pausing to remember the lives of those lost through the pursuit of space exploration on NASA’s Day of Remembrance.

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[Wowietalks]

the managers should be responsible for this

[junaidisalam]

still can't understand once able to land on the moon, yet unable to build their own space station or better yet, build a moon station to explore and study the moon...
maybe its time to revisit Mojave desert again...

[mogon]

"...honors the lives lost in pursuit of space exploration".

And here I thought they would, on this day of remembering the crimes committed during the Holocaust, honor the victims who were tortured and murdered in the pursuit of medical experiments of the most brutal and gruesome kind, crimes committed in the concentraion camp of Dachau under the reign of the head of the Research Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin, a certain Dr. Strughold, later chief scientist of the aerospace medical division at Brooks Air Force and credited as the father of space medicine. That fine gentlemen was later laid to rest in San Antonio, Texas, by the way.

Or maybe NASA should remember the 20.000 victims murdered in the concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora under the leadership of the man who later headed the American space program and was director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, a certain SS-Sturmbannführer Wernher v. Braun.

Of course, after the war, they couldn't remember, and they claimed to have not known what had happened under their direct supervision. And the people who brought them to America also couldn't remember, and so everybody was absolved and happily lived their lives. Just not the murdered victims...

Those two, and with them a few hundred other nazi war criminals, were inextricably *paperclipped* to NASA, and it was these few hundred nazis who brought 12 Americans safely to the moon and back to earth.

Yet, I cannot see these men's thousands of victims on that wall of rememberance. Their lives were not only lost but brutally taken in the pursuit of space exploration. NASA doesn't WANT to honor them, it would seem. Never admit, that's the golden rule, right?

[TheCommunicationCoach]

More of a waste of money. So Alcindor got bumped off PBS when Woodward left finally? Good, it was a very tiresome few years of them along with the other two friends of Judy's too.