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Chaffee, White, and Grissom training in a simulator of their command module cabin, January 19, 1967 The launch simulation on January 27, 1967, on pad 34, was a "plugs-out" test to determine whether the spacecraft would operate nominally on (simulated) internal power while detached from all cables and umbilicals.
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]
In 1971 Grissom filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Apollo program's prime contractor, North American Rockwell. In 1972, she settled for $350,000, which adjusted for inflation, would be worth nearly $3 million in 2018. [5] As a result of her legal action the widows of Chaffee and White received $125,000 apiece.
[72] [73] Grissom High School, Ed White Middle School and Chaffee Elementary School in Huntsville, Alabama, were named for the Apollo 1 astronauts. [74] Roger That! is an annual event sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Museum and Grand Valley State University that celebrates space exploration and the life of Chaffee, who was a Grand Rapids ...
The Apollo 1 astronauts were buried, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee at Arlington National Cemetery and Ed White at West Point. NASA officials had attempted to pressure Pat White, Ed White's widow, into allowing her husband also to be buried at Arlington, against what she knew to be his wishes; their efforts were foiled by astronaut Frank Borman ...
The lake formed at Badwater Basin in August, on what normally is a salt flat, after Death Valley National Park saw heavy rains and flash floods caused by the remnants of Hurricane Hilary, park ...
A paddle boarder tows an inflatable unicorn Thursday on a temporary lake in Death Valley National Park. A series of storms have brought more than double the California park's annual rainfall in ...
These islands, named Oil Islands Freeman, Grissom, White, and Chaffee, are named for Theodore Freeman, the first NASA astronaut to die during flight, and for Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee, who were killed by a fire during the Apollo 1 mission. [11]