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7 de jun. de 2024 · Roger Chaffee was one of the three astronauts who died in a fire at the launch pad during the Apollo 1 mission in 1967. He was selected by NASA in 1963 and worked on various systems for the Apollo program.
- Apollo 1
Apollo 1. On January 27, 1967, a flash fire swept through...
- Apollo 1
Há 4 dias · The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM).
7 de jun. de 2024 · Apollo astronauts, left to right, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, pose in front of Launch Complex 34, which housed the Saturn 1 rocket scheduled for the Apollo 1 mission. The mission was to be the first crewed flight of the Apollo program with a planned launch on Feb. 21, 1967.
6 de jun. de 2024 · Apollo 1. On January 27, 1967, a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 (then known as Apollo 204) command module during a launch rehearsal test killing the crew: Virgil I "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee.
Há 2 dias · Apollo 1 crew: Ed White, command pilot Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee. NASA's director of flight crew operations during the Apollo program was Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts who was medically grounded in September 1962 due to a heart murmur.
Há 1 dia · Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, each of whom published works proposing rockets as the means for spaceflight. [a] The first successful large-scale rocket programs were initiated in Nazi Germany by Wernher von Braun.
Há 2 dias · The Forgotten Mission "We have a bad fire!" were the last words said by Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967. Apollo 1, while the mission never made it off the ground, was subject to take off on February 21, 1967, aboard the Saturn 1B; initially dubbed Apollo 204 it would be renamed in honor of the tragedy that took place in Cape Canaveral.
