The Worst Day
I wrote ten days ago that I was worried about Apollo 1. I am not going to feel any vindication about that. Three men are dead.
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Archive: January 1967
A Terrible Friday Afternoon
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are dead. There was a fire on the launch pad yesterday afternoon during a ground test. I heard it on the radio on the way home from work. I had to pull over. I sat in the car for a long time before…
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Grissom’s Concerns
I've been reading between the lines of what's being reported about Apollo 1 and I'm worried. Gus Grissom reportedly hung a lemon on the spacecraft at some point.
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The Men Who Will Fly First
The crew of the first Apollo mission has been named for months: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. Their spacecraft is AS-204. They're scheduled to launch in February. I have been following Grissom since 1961 and White since his spacewalk. Chaffee is new to me. I looked him…
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