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Roger Bruce Chaffee (/ ˈ tʃ æ f iː /; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eagle Scout.
Roger B. Chaffee was a U.S. astronaut who was a member of the three-man Apollo 1 crew killed when a flash fire swept their space capsule during a simulation of a launching. Chaffee died along with the veteran space travellers Virgil I. Grissom and Edward H. White II.
Jun 7, 2024 · Selected in NASA’s third group of astronauts in 1963, Roger B. Chaffee was to make his first spaceflight on the AS-204 mission, the first of the Apollo program. On January 27, 1967, his life, along with his two crewmates, was tragically lost in a flash fire that sparked inside the command module.
Feb 3, 2022 · The nation’s Moon landing program suffered a shocking setback on Jan. 27, 1967, with the deaths of Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee in a flash fire aboard their spacecraft during a ground test on the launch pad.
Jan 28, 2017 · Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White died in a flash fire that engulfed their capsule atop a Saturn 1B rocket during a routine training operation on Jan. 27, 1967. Mr. Grissom was 40.
Jan 21, 2019 · Roger B. Chaffee was a NASA astronaut who trained for Apollo missions and worked on Gemini. He was killed in the Apollo 1 fire on January 1967.
Oct 18, 2021 · Since childhood, Roger Chaffee dreamt of becoming an astronaut and, when he was selected to be in NASA's third group of astronauts, that goal became a reality, according to NASA's...
Jan 26, 2017 · The three men set to blast off on Apollo 1—rookie astronaut Roger Chaffee and veterans Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Ed White—had issues with the new craft as well.
Jan 27, 2022 · On Jan. 27, 1967, with the planned launch of the first Apollo mission to carry a crew just 25 days away, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee were conducting a key test with their spacecraft on the launch pad.
Roger B. Chaffee. Inducted In: 1983. Country: United States. Pilot of the Apollo 1 crew. Roger B. Chaffee was born February 15, 1935, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His father was a former barnstorming pilot and Roger became fascinated with flight after his first airplane ride at the age of seven.
