The three crew members who died in the Apollo 1 tragedy were honored this week.
On January 27, 1967, just three weeks ahead of the scheduled launch, astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee arrived at Cape Kennedy for a dress rehearsal flight inside their command module. The mission was set to become the first crewed flight of Apollo, according toBut three hours into the test flight, a fire swept through the launchpad's command module, trapping and killing the astronauts.
Years later, when tragedy struck NASA again with the"Challenger" and"Columbia" missions, the lives lost were honored with memorial services at Arlington National Cemetery. Even though Grissom and Chaffee were laid to rest there decades earlier, there was no memorial service at the time for their deaths, prompting families to push for a monument.
Jamie Draper, director of the Air Force Space and Missile Museum, told Van Cleave that lessons from the Apollo 1 incident contributed to the success of future space missions. "The incident really shook not only the space program, but America to the core,"Draper told Van Cleave."Without their sacrifice, the program would not have been reconfigured and we would not have made it to the moon."
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