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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 .
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 ...
Ben Marley as Roger B. Chaffee, assigned to fly his first mission on Apollo 1 in episode 1, killed in accidental fire along with Grissom and White in episode 2. Seen briefly in episode 7, "That's All There Is".
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.
Launch of the first crewed Gemini flight Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during Gemini 3's flight Gus Grissom, hoping to avoid duplication of the experience with his Mercury flight Liberty Bell 7 in which the capsule sank after splashdown , named the Gemini 3 spacecraft Molly Brown ...
The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, named for astronaut Roger B. Chaffee, was constructed in the early 1960s as part of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.The facility initially featured a 30-foot (9.1 m) plaster dome and a Goto Optics mechanical star projector.
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.
Roger B. Chaffee Chaffee is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon . It lies within the huge walled plain Apollo , and is one of several craters in that formation named for astronauts and people associated with the Apollo program .