NASA Has More Disappointing News for Its Stranded Astronauts
T he two NASA astronauts stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, won’t be coming ...
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30 years later, Apollo 1 astronaut gains Hall of Fame status
The hall had previously required all inductees to have flown in space. Astronauts Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White died on a launch pad in January 1967 when fire swept through their sealed and ...
My fascination with space flight goes from Sputnik to Space X
Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of ...
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Trial by Fire: The Legacy of Apollo 1
Within minutes its crew, astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, lost their lives to the blaze. Two years later, humankind put boots on the ground at Tranquility Base, 238,900 ...
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The Apollo Missions
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew ... Frank Borman, the astronaut on the review committee, became the main liaison with contractor North American Aviation.
Fatal Apollo 1 mission should be part of our shared memory
That one Apollo tragedy, along with the program’s many successes and the near tragedy of Apollo 13, should be honored in ...