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Roger Bruce Chaffee (/ ˈ tʃ æ f iː /; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan , where he became an Eagle Scout .
Roger Chaffee (1935–1967), astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire; Samuel-Edmour St. Onge Chapleau (1839–1921), US Army major in the Civil War; Clerk of the Senate of Canada and Clerk of the Parliaments of Canada, 1900–1917 [12] Willis Carto (1926–2015), American political activist; William Christman (1843–1864), first soldier buried ...
Two panels show the names of the crew of STS-107's Space Shuttle Columbia. The primary feature of the memorial is the Space Mirror, a flat expanse of polished black granite, 42.5 feet high by 50 feet wide (13.0 m × 15.2 m), divided into 90 smaller panels.
All other veterans were denied burial at Arlington until further notice because only 6,437 unused grave sites remained and there had been more than 7,000 people buried at Arlington in 1966. The restrictions were made to let the remaining sites last for three additional years, with plans for 60,000 new sites to be available at neighboring ...
Roger B. Chaffee: Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 15, 1935 January 27, 1967: Chaffee attended Illinois Institute of Technology and Purdue University, from which he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1957. He was commissioned into the Navy under the NROTC program.
The memorialized crew (l to r: White, Grissom, Chaffee) Mission Command Pilot Grissom had flown in both Mercury and Gemini programs. [2] Chaffee, at 31, was the youngest member of the astronaut corp ever chosen and was prepping for his first flight. [2] White had been the first American to perform a spacewalk during the Gemini program. [2]
The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium is located at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. [92] Roger B. Chaffee Memorial Boulevard in Wyoming, Michigan, the largest suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is today an industrial park, but exists on the site of the former Grand Rapids Airport. A large portion of the north-south runway is used today as the ...
In March 1966, White was selected as senior pilot (second seat) for the first crewed Apollo flight, designated AS-204. His fellow astronauts would be Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission in 1961 and as commander of the Gemini 3 in 1965, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into ...