Same subject
Space exploration
Title
Apollo 204 crew (September 30, 1966)
Caption
First Apollo crew. From left: Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Edward White. The flight is scheduded for
early 1967 (September 30, 1966).
On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular activity during the Gemini program; and Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut preparing for his first space flight, died in this tragic accident.
Date
Jan 27, 1967
Credit line
Photo12/Coll-DITE/NASA
Reference
DIT01047_234
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
23,2Mb (1,2Mb) / 10,3in x 8,7in / 3092 x 2617 (300dpi)