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And Gamma Velorum became Regor – Roger (Chaffee) spelled backwards. These names quickly stuck after the Apollo 1 accident and were regularly used by later Apollo crews. [77] Craters on the Moon and hills on Mars are named after the three Apollo 1 astronauts.
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.
18 Οκτ 2021 · Apollo 1: A fatal fire. As a teenager, Chaffee excelled in science and mathematics and later developed an interest in electronics engineering, according to NASA. Following high school, he began...
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.
4 Αυγ 2006 · Before the world’s super powers took their first halting steps into space, Roger Chaffee had shared his dream of being the first man on the moon with his closest friends. On June 11, 1953, Roger Chaffee graduated in the top fifth of his class from Central High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
17 Ιουν 2024 · The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the command module.
7 Ιουν 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.
