Feb 2 2000
From The Space Library
The publication Florida Today announced that astronaut Janice E. Voss would carry aboard the next scheduled Endeavour flight a commemorative stuffed bear, manufactured to raise money for victims of the shooting at the Columbine High School in Colorado. Voss had agreed to the plan when students from Columbine, visiting Kennedy Space Center as NASA's special guests, explained their fund-raising goals. NASA had invited the Columbine students to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to watch a Space Shuttle launch. NASA also announced that at the conclusion of Voss's mission, it would donate to the still-recovering high school an official Endeavour flight kit. Of the class's trip to NASA to watch Endeavour's launch, a parent of one of the Columbine students said simply that it was "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
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