Michael P. Anderson - Tributes

Tributes

• State Route 904, running through Cheney, Washington, where he graduated from high school, was renamed in his memory.
• The science and math wing of Cheney High School is dedicated to his memory.
• Asteroid 51824 Mikeanderson was posthumously named after Anderson.
• Anderson Hall, in the Columbia Village apartments at the Florida Institute of Technology is named after him.
• Anderson Plaza, the green space in front of the Hixson-Lied Science Center at Creighton University was named after him in a compromise between the student body, who wanted the Science Center named for Anderson, and the administration who had already sold the naming rights to the Hixson-Lied family.
• Blair Elementary School on Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington was renamed Michael Anderson Elementary School in January 2004. Anderson attended the school as a fifth-grader.
• Avondale Elementary School in Avondale, Arizona was renamed Michael Anderson Elementary in his honor. He attended school there when he was in 3rd grade, and one of the school T-shirts was aboard the Columbia on its last voyage.
• Anderson Park in Canton, Mississippi was dedicated in June 2004.
• An outdoor bronze statue of Anderson was unveiled in Spokane in June 2005. Larger-than-life, it was created by local artist Dorothy Fowler, and shows Anderson kneeling with his helmet in one hand and a dove in the other.
• A duplicate statue was dedicated at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in June 2009 and the museum launched an aerospace program in his honor.