flight commander Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, were taking part in a test run for the launch of the first Apollo mission. BBC Archive. 1967: Three astronauts die in Apollo 1 tragedy.

I first became familiar with Gus Grissom through films like “The Right ... Grissom’s untimely death in the Apollo 1 fire, alongside fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger B.

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 was set up for a launch rehearsal test at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee made up the first crew in the Apollo program.