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Rest in Peace
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Rest in Peace
It is such a shame that NASA learns so many design lessons the hard way. A little common sense in design and those three men would have seen old age.
Sure doesn’t seem like 50 years...(I had just entered the military)...
Stupid to have an artificial atmosphere in the capsule that had a high oxygen content.
True American heroes, they are remembered!
I lived in Florida in my teens and my neighbor was a retired man who worked for NASA, he ate breakfast with the astronauts that horrible day.
Remember this well. It was a sad time and quite a blow to the nation.
Does anyone know if the artificial oil islands off Long Beach CA are still named White, Grissom and Chaffee?
I was 13. It was a nightmare. That was one tough decade. More happened in 1967 than has happened before or since.
This very nearly stopped the program completely. A horrible tragedy
Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan Roger Chaffee is 2nd only to Gerald Ford in terms of his renown.
Every kid, at least when I was, learned who he was. We have a street named for him, our museum’s planetarium bears his name, a scholarship, and we have two sculpture/monuments devoted to him!
Cant believe that was 50 years ago. To at least people older than 30, it kind of exists as almost a tragedy that might as well happened just a few years ago because the name is so fresh to us here.
They were murdered.
Gus had held a press conference the day before to call the Apollo vehicle a lemon.
The unit insides was over with layer of gold and the man wanted to keep the unit clean-—SO HE COVER THE WHOLE INSIDE WITH FOAM LIKE MATERNAL AND ADDED O2
The unit insides was over with layer of gold and the man wanted to keep the unit clean-—SO HE COVER THE WHOLE INSIDE WITH FOAM LIKE MATERNAL AND ADDED O2
This was a bad day. Gus Grissom was a personal friend to my family.
SEATTLE, Sept. 28, 2012–A new exhibit honoring NASA astronaut Donald “Deke” Slayton (1924-1993) The centerpiece of the exhibit is Slayton’s diamond astronaut spaceflight lapel pin. Slayton was grounded from spaceflight for medical reasons just before he was to become the second American to orbit the Earth in 1962. Because of this, he was not issued a NASA spaceflight pin (akin to wings for pilots). Then in 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 had a unique spaceflight pin made for Slayton as a show of respect. The astronauts planned to give it to him after they had flown it in space, but they perished in a tragic fire on the launch pad during a pre-flight training session. The astronauts’ widows gave Slayton the pin, and he wore it in their honor for the rest of his career – except for a few weeks when it went to the Moon with Apollo 11 at the request of Neil Armstrong. The pin is legendary in the history of the NASA manned space program.
I was 9 years old when this happened and watch the coverage on CBS, the only channel we could get at the time.
How wonderful it was to grow up in the era of Apollo for a 9yo.
What can I say, they are heroes...
