The original prime crew of the first manned Apollo space mission pose for a group photo in their blue flight suits at the Johnson Space Center March 31, 1966 in Houston, Texas. From left to right are: Edward H. White II, Virgil Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee. On January 27, 1967 during a routine simulated launch test onboard the Apollo Saturn V Moon rocket, an electrical short circuit inside the Apollo Command Module ignited the pure oxygen environment and within a matter of seconds all three Apollo 1 crewmembers perished.
The original prime crew of the first manned Apollo space mission pose for a group photo in their blue flight suits at the Johnson Space Center March 31, 1966 in Houston, Texas. From left to right are: Edward H. White II, Virgil Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee. On January 27, 1967 during a routine simulated launch test onboard the Apollo Saturn V Moon rocket, an electrical short circuit inside the Apollo Command Module ignited the pure oxygen environment and within a matter of seconds all three Apollo 1 crewmembers perished.
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