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On January 31, 1967, four days after the Apollo 1 fire, United States Air Force airmen William F. Bartley Jr. and Richard G. Harmon were killed in a flash fire while tending laboratory rabbits in the Two Man Space Environment Simulator, a pure oxygen chamber at the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base.
January 27, 1967: Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee killed in Apollo 1 fire. ... with the pure oxygen and flammable material allowing the flames to burn quickly ...
On January 27, 1967, Grissom's crew was conducting a launch-pad test for their planned February 21 mission, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men. [16] A complete safety review of the Apollo program followed. [17] Soon after the fire, Slayton asked Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham to fly the first mission after the pause. [18]
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Fire during spacecraft test 27 January 1967: Apollo 1: Virgil "Gus" Grissom Ed White Roger B. Chaffee: An electrical fire spread quickly in the pure oxygen atmosphere of the cabin and claimed the lives of all three Apollo 1 crew members during a "plugs-out" test in preparation for their planned 21 February launch. [27]
Three astronauts; Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee, were killed in a fire aboard the AS-204 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34 on 27 January whilst rehearsing the launch. On 20 October the Saturn V rocket made its maiden flight .
It was the site of the Apollo 1 fire, which claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967. The first crewed Apollo launch — Apollo 7 on October 11, 1968 — was the last time LC-34 was used.
January 27 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee are killed in a fire during a plugs-out test for Apollo 1. January 27 – The United States, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty. April 20 – Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. April 24 – Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.