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Há 13 horas · This killed all three crew members on board; Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee, as well as destroying the command module. A subsequent investigation found that the cause of the fire had been electrical, and it had spread to the presence of a combustible nylon material in the cabin as well as the high pressure oxygen atmosphere in the command module.
Há 13 horas · White, along with fellow astronauts Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee, died on Jan. 27, 1967, when their cabin caught fire during a launch rehearsal test of the Apollo 1 mission. White was laid to rest at West Point Cemetery in New York with full military honors, said the National Air and Space Museum’s website.
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 9 horas · White, along with fellow astronauts Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee, died on Jan. 27, 1967, when their cabin caught fire during a launch rehearsal test of the Apollo 1 mission.
Há 2 dias · Born to fly. Born on November 14, 1930 in San Antonio, Texas, Edward Higgins White II was the son of Edward White Sr., an accomplished pilot and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Born to fly, White got his first taste of it when he was just a 12-year-old as his father allowed him to take control of a T-6 trainer aeroplane ...
Há 13 horas · White’s spacewalk ended on a bittersweet note as he later expressed that re-entering the capsule after the experience was the saddest moment of his life. Tragically, White, along with two other astronauts, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee, lost their lives in a fire during a rehearsal test for the Apollo 1 mission in 1967.
Há 1 dia · White, junto com James McDivitt, foram selecionados para a missão Gemini 4 que incluiria uma caminhada no espaço. Assim como os soviéticos superaram os EUA no lançamento do primeiro satélite do mundo, eles também marcaram a primeira caminhada espacial quando o cosmonauta Alexei Leonov a realizou durante a missão Voskhod 2 em 18 de março ...
