Title - Apollo 1 Astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee Description - Astronauts (left to right) Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, posing in front of Launch Complex 34 which housed their Saturn 1 launch vehicle. Apollo 1 is the official name that was later given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27, 1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known as Cape Kennedy) atop a Saturn IB rocket. The crew aboard (pictured) were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission. All three died in the fire. Description Source - NASA Year - 1/17/1967 |