{"id":42397,"date":"2005-05-08T00:43:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mccool-honoured-with-statue\/"},"modified":"2005-05-08T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T16:43:22","slug":"mccool-honoured-with-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mccool-honoured-with-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"McCool honoured with statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts were among those on-hand Saturday to dedicate a statue to one of their fallen peers in the space shuttle Columbia disaster.   <\/p>\n<p>  About 200 people attended the unveiling of a 15-foot bronze statue of Willie McCool.\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">McCool was one of the seven astronauts who died when Columbia disintegrated during re-entry in Febuary&nbsp;2003.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The statue shows McCool\u2019s hand pointing north toward the flight path of Columbia before the shuttle began to break up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The names of McCool\u2019s widow and his three sons are etched on the statue.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The bronze sculpture of McCool, standing next to an inspired six-year-old boy, weighs about 1,700 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers have been working on the $250,000 project for about two years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften when you work on a piece as long as i have, it`s like losing an old friend. You have to get used to it. It leaves an abyss in your life,\u201d says sculptor Eddie Dixon.<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts were among those on-hand Saturday to dedicate a statue to one of their fallen peers in the space shuttle Columbia disaster. About 200 people attended the unveiling of a 15-foot bronze statue of Willie McCool. McCool was one of the seven astronauts who died when Columbia disintegrated during re-entry in Febuary&nbsp;2003. The statue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}