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On this date: Apollo 1 tragedy claims the lives of crew
On this date, Jan. 27, 1967, NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. A flash fire swept through the capsule so quickly ...
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65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts
He had missed out on two Mercury missions — the first being MR-6, canceled after Gus Grissom's near-disastrous MR-4 mission, and the second being MA-7, which became Scott Carpenter's only trip ...
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The Apollo Missions
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...