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THUMS oil island White, 2010. After a 1964 court case that gave the state of California mineral rights to the area, [4] the islands were built at an estimated cost of $22 million in 1965.
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]
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[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 ...
Edward H. White II Park in Fullerton, California. Fullerton has also named parks in honor of Chaffee and Grissom. [94] Island White, an artificial island in Long Beach Harbor off Southern California. [95] [96] Edward H. White Hall was a dormitory at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. [97]
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Theodore Cordy Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash of a T-38 jet, marking the first fatality among the NASA Astronaut Corps.