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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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    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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    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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    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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    British diplomat Roger Chaffee, American astronaut Roger Chan, the bus uncle Roger Chao, Australian explorer and mountain climber Roger Christian (songwriter)...
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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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    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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    for a "rather comical televised walk on the moon". Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Chaffee training at the Reduced Gravity Simulator Astronaut training at the...
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    nearby craters White and Chaffee were named after the other two astronauts killed in the disaster, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. By convention these features...
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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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  • Apollo 1 in episode 2 "Apollo One", killed along with Ed White and Roger Chaffee, also seen at CAPCOM station, during White's EVA on Gemini 4 in episode...
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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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    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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    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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    spaceflight. On January 27, 1967, Gus Grissom, along with fellow astronauts Roger Chaffee and Ed White, died when an electrical fire engulfed the Apollo 1 command...
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    Apollo 1 Hills (redirect from Chaffee Hill)
    landing of the Spirit rover on Mars. NASA astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White perished in a flash fire which engulfed their command...
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    Apollo 1 fire which killed three astronauts (Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee). Storms grew up in Chicago's North Shore (Wilmette), the son of a traveling...
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    Moon by the end of the decade. On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Roger Chaffee were killed in the Apollo 1 fire. At the time, Lovell was in Washington...
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    Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were dead. When the enormity of the situation was ascertained, it fell on Collins to go to the Chaffee household to inform...
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    these calls, they learned of the deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee in the fire. Armstrong and the group spent the rest of the night drinking...
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    following the Apollo 1 disaster that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Kranz made the following address to the gathering (The Kranz Dictum)...
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    This killed Grissom along with his entire crew, Edward H. White and Roger Chaffee. Because of this, NASA decided to change to a quick-release, outward...
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    Cygnus PCM. The spacecraft for the NG-11 is named the S.S. Roger Chaffee after Roger Chaffee who lost his life during training for the Apollo 1 mission...
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  • been selected for the Apollo 1 mission, along with Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee. During a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967, a fire kills White...
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    launch, when a cabin fire on the launch pad killed Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967. Walter M. Schirra Jr. also began his NASA career...
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    Yuri Gagarin, and the Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Komarov's name also appears on a commemorative plaque left at Hadley...
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    by Clinton P. Anderson, when astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire on January 27 while testing the Apollo 204 (later...
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    astronauts Lieutenant Colonel Ed White, USAF, and Lieutenant Commander Roger Chaffee, USN, perished in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
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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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    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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