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Aeronáutica, Universidad de Michigan. Capitán de Corbeta USN, Piloto, Astronauta. Miembro de la misión Apolo 1. Roger Bruce Chaffee. Fue un astronauta estadounidense, piloto de la Marina de los Estados Unidos y astronauta de programa Apolo, además miembro de Tau Beta Pi, la Sociedad Nacional de Ingeniería, Sigma Gamma Tau y Phi Kappa Sigma.
Chaffee is memorialized in many ways, from the Chaffee Crater on the far side of the Moon, to the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Another memorial is a hill on Mars, Chaffee Hill, 14.3 kilometres (8.9 mi) south-southwest of Columbia Memorial Station, part of the Apollo 1 Hills.
Here, LIFE.com recalls one of the worst disasters in NASA’s history—and its first public tragedy—when astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire inside their command module on a Cape Canaveral launchpad on Jan. 27, 1967. As TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger (the author of Apollo 13) once wrote, when commemorating the three ...
28 de ene. de 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.
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ROGER B. CHAFFEE (LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, USN) NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) PERSONAL DATA: Born February 15, 1935 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Died January 27, 1967, at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the Apollo spacecraft fire. He is survived by his wife Martha and two children. EDUCATION: Chaffee graduated from Central High School, Grand Rapids,
17 de ago. de 2021 · El 27 de enero de 1967 Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Roger Chaffee y Edward White, elegidos para tripular la primera misión espacial de la NASA, murieron por inhalar monóxido de carbono cuando ...
Roger Bruce Chaffee, né le 15 février 1935 à Grand Rapids ( Michigan) et mort le 27 janvier 1967 à Cap Canaveral ( Floride ), est un pilote américain, officier de la United States Navy, sélectionné comme astronaute dans le cadre du programme Apollo. Eagle Scout dans sa jeunesse, Chaffee obtient son diplôme de la Central High School en ...
