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'Isn't That Enough?' Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee, Fallen Crew of Apollo 1
By Ben Evans, on January 27th, 2019


Unwilling to fly a desk in the aftermath of World War II, Grissom left the U.S. Air Force, but subsequently rejoined the service and rose to become one of its most accomplished fliers. Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de

“I’m a pilot. Isn’t that enough?”

Virgil Ivan Grissom had already established himself as America’s second man in space, the first NASA astronaut to make two space missions and the first human to eat a corned-beef sandwich aboard an Earth-circling spacecraft by the time of Apollo 1. Born in the Midwestern town of Mitchell, Ind., on 3 April 1926, he was nicknamed “Greasy Grissom” as a child and his small stature—just five feet and four inches—led him to grow up with a determination to “prove I could do things as well as the big boys.”

His father worked for almost a half-century on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Grissom, though too small to participate in many school sports, joined the Boy Scouts and led the Honor Guard. He delivered newspapers and, in the summer, picked peaches and cherries for local growers in order to earn enough money to date his sweetheart, Betty Moore. The couple married in July 1945. Grissom was described by his school principal as “an average, solid citizen, who studied just about enough to get a diploma,” but his lasting regret was being unable to fight for his country in the theater of World War II. (...)


Gemini IV crewmen Jim McDivitt (left) and Ed White prepare for a water egress training exercise in the Gulf of Mexico in April 1965. Photo Credit: NASA

“Two full-course dinners, then dessert”

Long before his untimely death, aged 36, aboard Apollo 1, Edward Higgins White II had cemented his credentials as a record-setter in America’s space program. For on 3 June 1965, on his one and only space mission, the Air Force major became the first U.S. citizen to leave the confines of his spacecraft and perform a session of Extravehicular Activity (EVA). In so doing, White became the second human to perform a spacewalk—after Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov—and, at the time of writing, he stands as the third least-experienced spacewalker of all time. Yet the time spent in near-total vacuum by White on 3 June 1965 were pivotal in turning America’s fortunes around and taking the lead in the space race back from the Soviet Union.

Son of a West Point graduate and Air Force major-general, White was born in San Antonio, Texas, on 14 November 1930. Self-discipline, persistence, and a determination to achieve personal goals was a mantra for his early life. He first took the controls of an aircraft, under his father’s supervision, at the age of 12, and throughout his childhood the White family traveled to bases across the United States, from the East Coast to Hawaii. There was never any question that White would follow in his father’s footsteps to West Point. Whist at the Military Academy, he excelled in academics and athletics, serving as half-back on the football team, making the track team, and setting a new record in the 400-meter hurdles. So impressive were his credentials that he missed selection for the United States’ track team in the 1952 Olympics…by just 0.4 seconds.

Whilst at West Point, he met his future wife, Pat Finnegan, and upon graduation in 1952 enlisted in the Air Force. Initial flight instruction in Florida and receipt of his wings were followed by assignments in Germany, where he piloted F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre jets and completed the Air Force Survival School. Toward the end of the decade, as America readied for Project Mercury, White decided that he would aim for a NASA career and enrolled on a master’s degree program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He graduated in aeronautical engineering in 1959, having studied alongside another Air Force officer, named Jim McDivitt. Little did both men know that they would wind up in the same NASA astronaut class and would fly into space together. (...)


Backdropped by a training version of their Block 1 command module, astronauts Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee confer before a water egress training exercise in the Gulf of Mexico in October 1966. Photo Credit: NASA

“One of the smartest boys I’ve ever run into”

The third member of the ill-fated Apollo 1 crew, and the flight’s only “rookie,” might have become the youngest American in history to complete a space mission. In fact, had Roger Bruce Chaffee launched atop the Saturn IB booster on 21 February 1967, just six days after his 32nd birthday, he would have eclipsed his best friend Gene Cernan and, indeed, would have established a record which would have endured to this day. Even in more recent times, astronauts Sally Ride, Steve Hawley, and Tammy Jernigan—all of whom made their first flights aged 32—would not have been quite “young enough” to have beaten the record so cruelly snatched from Chaffee.

That said, his youth belied a talented aviator and a skilled engineer. Chaffee came from Grand Rapids, Mich., where he was born on 15 February 1935, the son of a barnstorming biplane pilot. Aged seven, he was taken flying by his father over Lake Michigan and a fascination with aviation was nurtured. As father and son built model aircraft, the young Chaffee also developed an interest in guns and hunting from his grandfather and a love of music led him to play the French horn, the cornet, and the trumpet.

Within a year of joining the Boy Scouts in 1948, he earned ten badges and the Order of the Arrow, before eventually rising to Eagle Scout and teaching swimming. An interest in mathematics and chemistry led him first to Illinois State University in September 1953 for a year, during which time he settled on aeronautical engineering as a major, then transferred to Purdue. As a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholar, he undertook summer duty aboard the battleship Wisconsin. His undergraduate career also saw him teaching freshman mathematics classes and in September 1955 he met Martha Horn, who became his wife, two years later. (...)
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Reflecting on the tragedy of Apollo 1, OTD 57 years ago. To the memory of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Never forgotten. I was 11 years old at the time & can still recall the school memorial assembly on the Monday morning after the accident.
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The Apollo 1 fire had a profound impact on the space community, especially staff and contractors that were at Pad 34 that day. 
 In this #ASQ, Matthew Beddingfield shares his grandfather James D. Gleaves's harrowing recollections from that day: https://s.si.edu/48S1Wlh
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'The Slightest Glitch': Remembering The Fire, OTD in 1967
By Ben Evans, on January 27th, 2021


Video Credit: CBS News/YouTube
https://www.americaspace.com/2021/01/27/the-slightest-glitch-remembering-the-fire-otd-in-1967/

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Ed White was named a member of the astronaut team selected by NASA in 1962. He was the pilot for Gemini 4 and carried out the first extra vehicular activity in the US crewed space flight program, becoming the first person to control himself in space during an EVA.


Gus Grissom was one of the seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA in 1959. He piloted the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, served as command pilot on the first crewed Gemini flight, and was the backup command pilot for Gemini 6.


Roger Chaffee was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1963. He was tasked with working on flight control communications systems, instrumentation systems, and attitude and translation control systems in the Apollo Branch of the Astronaut office.



Remembering the crew of Apollo 1.
On this day in 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee perished in a fire during a pre-launch test for what was to be the first crewed Apollo mission.

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ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 1997              TAG: 9701280072
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-3  EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.
SOURCE: Associated Press

DEAD APOLLO 1 ASTRONAUTS REMEMBERED

The families of the three Apollo 1 astronauts killed in a launch pad fire 30 years ago gathered in the rain Monday to remember their courage and contributions to America's race to the moon.

It was the first public ceremony in decades in memory of Virgil ``Gus'' Grissom, Edward White II and Roger Chaffee, who died inside their burning capsule on Jan. 27, 1967.

``It's still a sad thing, it really is. Yet it's uplifting,'' said White's daughter, Bonnie Baer, standing next to brother Ed and 37 other relatives who hugged in front of the astronauts' memorial at Kennedy Space Center.

``I wasn't sure that I wanted to be here, but I'm really glad that I'm here,'' Baer continued.

For Martha Chaffee, the astronaut's widow, the hardest part was hearing daughter Sheryl Chaffee Marshall, a NASA employee, pay tribute to her father.

``I don't see that they need to have something like this all the time,'' Martha Chaffee said. ``But 30 years, you know, OK. It did happen. These guys were a part of the space program. They were footsteps'' to the moon.

``It took a long time for NASA to recognize there was an Apollo 1, to admit it,'' added Lowell Grissom, the astronaut's younger brother.

Indeed, Monday's ceremony was privately arranged.

Over the years, NASA has all but ignored the anniversaries of the Apollo 1 fire even while observing just one day later - on Jan. 28 - the anniversary of the explosion of space shuttle Challenger.

Few NASA employees attended Monday's ceremony. The crowd of more than 150 people consisted mostly of relatives of the Apollo 1 crew, retired NASA officials, including Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, and tourists who just happened to be wandering by.

A private ceremony took place Monday evening at the abandoned Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, where the Apollo 1 men died. The flash fire broke out inside their spacecraft during a countdown test, apparently because a bruised or broken wire contacted metal and created sparks.

The Apollo program was put on hold for 20 months as NASA improved the spacecraft. Eventually, 12 men - all colleagues and friends of Grissom, White and Chaffee - walked on the moon.

``Our Apollo 1 astronauts knew the risk that they were taking to achieve their dreams,'' Chaffee's father, Donald, said in a strained voice from his wheelchair. ``The best thought that any of us could have are those eight words of the Boy Scout oath: `On my honor, I will do my best.' And you know, the Apollo 1 crew did just that.''
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27 January 1967. The Apollo 1 crew died when their spacecraft incinerated in a launch pad fire.
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The lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were lost #OTD in 1967, when a fire erupted inside their spacecraft during a training exercise. Today we reflect on their sacrifice and hold safety paramount to our mission.
About Apollo 1: https://go.nasa.gov/42r3e4F
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56 lat temu w roku 1967 zginęło 3 odważnych ludzi. Od lewej do prawej: Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White i Roger B. Chaffee.

Ad astra per aspera.
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Montaż statku dla misji Apollo 1. Niestandardowa pokrywa włazu wejściowego (kolor jasno-niebieski)  przystosowana do komunikacji z systemami kontroli naziemnej. 



Trzy oryginalne pokrywy włazu statku Apollo 1 zdemontowane po tragicznym pożarze. Foto - T. Pribyl, KOSMONAUTIX.CZ


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Mamy już wątek poświęcony temu tematowi
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=32.msg71#msg71

55 Years Ago: The Apollo 1 Fire and its Aftermath
Feb 3, 2022

“Three valiant young men have given their lives in the nation’s service. We mourn this great loss and our hearts go out to their families.” President Lyndon B. Johnson (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/55-years-ago-the-apollo-1-fire-and-its-aftermath

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The Apollo 1 fire had a profound impact on the space community, especially staff and contractors that were at Pad 34 that day. 
 In the latest #ASQ, Matthew Beddingfield shares his grandfather James D. Gleaves's harrowing recollections from that day.
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1750989649076507047
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27 January 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, right, and Roger Chaffee walk across a ramp from the gantry elevator to the Apollo I Command Module at Cape Kennedy, Fla., for a launch test. They were killed later that day with fellow astronaut Edward H. White II in a spacecraft fire.
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Words from a man who spent much of his life accepting the risks inherent in aviation and spaceflight.

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Apollo One. A reminder of the courage and sacrifice needed to get men to the moon.

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Un Jour - Un Objet Spatial
(n° 00247 / 27 janvier 2019)
Enveloppe Accident Apollo 1 du 27 janvier 1967
signée par les parents de l'astronaute Ed White
http://souvenirsdespace.lebonforum.com/t1575p225-un-jour-un-objet-spatial#4832
#UnJourUnObjetSpatial
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1751188741916442626
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#
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