Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
."The new Apollo 1 monument at Arlington National Cemetery signifies the importance of these individuals and recognizes the crew's legacy in space exploration and American history."Family members of Apollo 1 astronaut Edward White are joined by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as they place flowers at the Apollo 1 monument on June 2, 2022.
On Jan. 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee climbed aboard their spacecraft, the Apollo 204 command module, for a Although other astronauts had died earlier in aircraft and automobile accidents, the Apollo 1 fire marked the first time that the U.S. space program suffered a fatal tragedy as part of its active spaceflight efforts.was buried at the Military Academy at West Point in New York.
The new stone monument is engraved with the Apollo 1 mission patch and reads,"In Memory of the Apollo 1 Crew, Ad Astra Per Aspera" . The crew's names and mission roles appear above the date of their death.in 2016 by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson , then ranking member of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
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