Her crew, Rick D. Husband, William McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon, is now amongst the fallen heroes of space, with Vladimir Komarov (1967, Soyuz-1), Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, Vladislav Volkov (1971, Soyuz-11), Greg Jarvis, Christa M Auliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onisuka, Judith Resnik, Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee (1986, STS-51L).
Let's be fair and don't forget Valentin Bondarenko (1961, fire in a pressurization chamber), Theodore Freeman (1964, T-38 accident), Elliot See and Charles Bassett (1966, T-38 accident), Gus Grissom, Edward White II, Roger Chaffee (1967, Apollo 1, fire in the cabin during training), Clifton "C.C." Williams (1967, T-38 accident), Robert Lawrence (1967, F-104 accident), Yuri Gagarin (1968, MiG-15 accident) and Sergei Vozovikov (1993, drowned during water recovery training).
May all their souls rest in peace, and their names be quoted often in this forum and anywhere else.