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Picture of the day -
June 7, 2008
Astronaut Michael Anderson Memorial Statue

Photo courtesy of
Ron Trees.
The scene depicted in today's picture can be found in Spokane,
Washington's beautiful Riverfront Park, and here is photographer Ron
Trees to tell you all about it:
"In the heart of Spokane, WA is a park called Riverfront Park. This
is a great park that gets many visitors each year. In this park is a
memorial statue in honor of Astronaut Michael Anderson. Mr. Anderson
was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force and was the Payload
Commander on the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 in 2003. He was one
of 7, who died when Columbia broke up over Texas during re-entry. He
considered Spokane to be his home.
You can find more info about him at the following URL's:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/.../anderson.html
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/anderson.html
This memorial statue was unveiled in 2005. I have wanted to take
some pictures of it for a long time now and I finally was able to
just a few days ago. Many of us remember where we were and what we
were doing when we heard the tragic news of another Space Shuttle
disaster. I guess this is my contribution to a hometown HERO.
I used my Sony A700 and Sony 18-250mm lens to capture this image. I
also used a Circular Polarizer. I shot the picture in RAW and
developed it in Adobe Lightroom." --Ron Trees
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