Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of the crew of "Columbia". "Seven" was premiered in 2007 by violinist Akiko Suwanai, conducted by Pierre Boulez, and it was recorded in 2012 with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the composer conducting. The 2008 album "Columbia: We Dare to Dream" by Anne Cabrera was written as a tribute to Space Shuttle "Columbia" STS-107, the crew, support teams, recovery teams, and the crew's families. A copy of the album on compact disc was flown aboard Space Shuttle "Discovery" mission STS-131 to the International Space Station by astronaut Clayton Anderson in April 2010. The Scottish Folk-Rock band Runrig included a song titled
Space flight participant same level of training as career NASA astronauts and were not employed by NASA, so they were essentially private astronauts. In the early days of the Shuttle program, NASA was also eager to prove its capability to Congressional sponsors, and Senator Jake Garn and (then-Representative, now Senator) Bill Nelson were both given opportunities to fly on a Shuttle mission. As the Shuttle program expanded, NASA developed the Space Flight Participant Program, where civilians, with an emphasis on creative people, would be sent into space to increase public awareness of NASA's mission. The initial goal was that two or three shuttle