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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,684 posts) Mon Jan 27, 2025, 09:20 AM Jan 2025

On this day, January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a launchpad capsule fire.

Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died in sudden launchpad capsule fire, Cape Kennedy, tonight 1967:

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Hours before tragedy, Apollo crew walks to spacecraft, Cape Kennedy, today 1967:

Watch as CBS special report announces death of Apollo astronauts in fire, tonight 1967:

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On this day, January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a launchpad capsule fire. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 OP

Rest in peace, Gus, Ed and Roger. Dennis Donovan Jan 2025 #1

I went all four years at Virgil I. Grissom High School here House of Roberts Jan 2025 #2

Dennis Donovan

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1. Rest in peace, Gus, Ed and Roger.

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 09:32 AM

Jan 2025

House of Roberts

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2. I went all four years at Virgil I. Grissom High School here

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:01 AM

Jan 2025

in Huntsville, while Ed White Middle School was a feeder school for another city high school, and Roger Chafee Elementary School was districted to follow into Grissom through Whitesburg Middle, which I attended for grades 7th and 8th. My ex-wife was a 1973 graduate of Grissom and a member of the first class to attend all four years there. I was a 1974 Grissom graduate.

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