Commander Rick Husband is at the center. Behind him in the front row from left are Kalpana Chawla and William McCool. Second  row       from left are Israeli      astronaut Ilan Ramon         and Laurel Clark. Third row            from  left are Michael          Anderson and David            Brown.

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. U.S. Pilot John Gillespie Magee - "High Flight" "