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    Roger Bruce Chaffee (/ˈtʃæfiː/; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA...
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    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...
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    members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by...
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    commander of AS-204 (Apollo 1), Grissom died with astronauts Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee on January 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission...
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    on January 27, 1967, alongside astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee in a fire during pre-launch testing for Apollo 1 at Cape Canaveral...
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    perish in active duty (piloting a T-38 Talon jet trainer). Islands Chaffee (Roger B. Chaffee), Grissom (Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom) and White (Ed White) are named...
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  • surname Chaffee or Chafee Fresno Chaffee Zoo, Fresno, California Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vermont Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium Loomis Chaffee, a school...
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    after Shepard was grounded with an inner ear disorder in late 1963. Roger B. Chaffee (Houston CAPCOM) L. Gordon Cooper Jr. (Cape CAPCOM) Mass: 3,236.9 kg...
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  • Oliver Newberry Chaffee (1910–1944), American painter and printmaker Rick Chaffee (born 1945), American skier, brother of Suzy Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967)...
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  • Academy for Science and Foreign Language (magnet) Blossomwood Elementary Chaffee Elementary Challenger Elementary Chapman P-8 Dawson Elementary Farley Elementary...
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    canceled as unnecessary duplication. Astronauts Grissom, White, and Roger B. Chaffee were wearing A1C suits on January 27, 1967 in a preliminary countdown...
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    constructed in 1994 on the west bank of the Grand River (home to the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium); the Voigt House Victorian Museum, and the City Archives...
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    Freeman) having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third (Roger B. Chaffee) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year. The aircraft crashed in Florida...
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    Tucker 2017 Wonderstruck Walter 2018 1985 Adrian Lester 2018 First Man Roger B. Chaffee 2021 The Same Storm Jeremy Salt 2022 Call Jane Dean 2023 May December...
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    this group were selected for their first space flights on Apollo: Roger B. Chaffee – Selected as Pilot (third seat) on Apollo 1, was killed with Grissom...
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  • April 5, 2010. "Whirlwind Heat Profile Apple iTunes". iTunes. "Roger B. Chaffee". Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 1997. Retrieved April 5, 2010. "Albrey...
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    Presenting the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Posthumously to Roger B. Chaffee and Edward H. White II". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 7 May 2017...
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  • Lune". Also seen during astronaut briefing in episode 1. Ben Marley as Roger B. Chaffee, assigned to fly his first mission on Apollo 1 in episode 1, killed...
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    on January 27, 1967, in which astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee died, and the subsequent investigation. In October 1968, Apollo 7 evaluated...
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    substituted. This applied to Buzz Aldrin, Bill Anders, Gene Cernan, Roger Chaffee, Walter Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart; all the others were test pilots...
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    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...
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    moonwalkers was a trained geologist. Of the 32, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed during a ground test in preparation for the Apollo 1 mission...
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    Roger B. Chaffee (1935-1967), astronaut Rex Cherryman (1896-1928), actor S. B. Conger (1872-1934), journalist Robert Dean (Michigan politician) (b. 1954)...
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    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,...
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  • Gene Vincent, American guitarist and vocalist (d. 1971) February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967) February 16 – Sonny Bono, American singer...
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    in bad weather, February 1966) Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee (killed in a fire during the "plugs-out test" preceding Apollo 1, January...
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    flight in the Apollo program. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (Houston CAPCOM) Roger B. Chaffee (CAPCOM) Eugene Cernan (CAPCOM) Mass: 3,570 kg (7,880 lb) Perigee (insertion):...
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    Vehicle. The astronauts in his group without test pilot training—Anders, Roger B. Chaffee, Walter Cunningham, Rusty Schweickart, Gene Cernan, and Buzz Aldrin—were...
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    Elliot M. See Jr. Virgil I. Grissom January 27, 1967 Apollo 1 fire Roger B. Chaffee Edward H. White II Vladimir M. Komarov April 24, 1967 Soyuz 1 re-entry...
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    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...
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