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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]
[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 ...
On March 21, 1966, NASA announced its crew selection for the AS-204 mission — the first crewed mission in the program aimed at reaching the moon.
NASA announced that Apollo 1, first of the American space shots to have three astronauts, would be launched on February 21, with Gus Grissom commanding, and Ed White and Roger Chaffee as the other two crewmembers. Under the schedule, the Apollo 1 capsule would orbit the Earth while the crew spent up to 14 days testing all systems on the new ship.
After the January 1967 Apollo 1 fire in which astronauts Grissom, White, and Roger Chaffee died, he was the astronaut representative on the accident investigation board. In December 1968, he commanded Apollo 8, the first crewed circumlunar mission.
Amid torrential downpours, Death Valley National Park's valley floor has received a record 4.9 inches in the past six months, far surpassing the average annual rainfall of about 2 inches per year ...
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 ...