This Navy pilot was named to the Apollo 1 crew in 1966, but his life ended tragically a year later
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collectSPACE - news - "Original astronaut Wally Schirra dies at 84"  May 3, 2007 ... Schirra's first space flight came on October 3, 1962, as pilot of Mercury-Atlas 8. ... True to his Navy background, Schirra elected to remain aboard the spacecraft until it ... Eight days later, Schirra and Thomas Stafford were in their Gemini ... the tragic fire that took the lives of the Apollo 1 crew in January 1967.
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Apollo 1: The Fire That Shocked NASA - Scientific American Blog ...  Jan 27, 2012 ... The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire that claimed the lives of Gus ... He flew again in Gemini in a spacecraft he named Molly Brown. Senior pilot on the Apollo 1 crew was Ed White, a Gemini veteran who made ... By the end of January 1967, the crew was going through their final ..... Every Year.
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Apollo 1: The Fatal Fire - Space.com  Aug 28, 2012 ... The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. ... Apollo Saturn-204, or AS-204, but was later renamed Apollo 1. The astronauts. The Apollo 1 crew commander, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, had earned his stripes. ... Although a rookie in space, he had spent years supporting the...
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Remembering the Apollo 1 Crew | NASA  This Week in NASA History: Apollo 15 Astronauts Deploy First Lunar Roving Vehicle ... Dr. Alley continued to follow his experiment's progress over the years. ... Astronaut and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin moves toward a position to .... In June 1966, the Apollo 1 crew practices water egress procedures with a full scale...
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Apollo 1 - Wikipedia  Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo ... The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was officially retired by NASA in .... of the AS-204 spacecraft caused the last-quarter 1966 target date to be missed, ... Grissom declared his intent to keep his craft in orbit for a full 14 days.
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Zero Gravity: Take One "Apollo 13\" Space Scenes Weren't ...  Jul 24, 1995 ... So How Did Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton And Kevin Bacon Float? ... a plane used to introduce astronauts to the phenomenon before they get to space. ... The film portrays the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in the spring of 1970 as a...
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Alan Shepard - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923  July 21, 1998) was an ... During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. ... At Annapolis, Shepard enjoyed aquatic sports. ..... Shepard made his second space flight as Commander of Apollo 14 from January 31 to February 9, 1971, America's...
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Astronaut Fred Haise: Apollo 13 Crewmember - Space.com  Mar 20, 2013 ... Astronaut Fred Haise was assigned to two Apollo missions where he would have walked on the moon, but he never made it there. ... Fred Haise, Apollo 13 crewmember and one of the first space shuttle pilots. ... He then shifted to work as a research pilot at the NASA Lewis Research Center in .... Company.
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Charles P. Pete Conrad, Captain, United States Navy  It was typical Pete Conrad, friends said, as they buried the man Monday who was the third ... "Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me. .... the moon after bringing the lunar module down in the moon's Ocean of Storms. .... Conrad's career in space began when NASA selected him as part of its...
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NBC Asian America - Comments  Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American in space, died Jan. ... the way space shuttle columbia was handled downplays any space shuttle ... What a sad day for the U.S. Space Program and a sadder day for the loved ones of ... Challenger crew of flight 51-L we will NEVER forget you! ... Han Nhem. 1986 Rip. Hide  Jan 25...
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Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle - New Historian  Dec 4, 2014 ... The disappearance of US Navy Flight 19 on the 5th December 1945 is a tragic ... was an experienced pilot who had been flying in the area for over six months. ... The term wasn't used until Vincent Gaddis coined it in a 1964...
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Neil Armstrong, first man to step on the moon, dies at 82 - The ...  Aug 25, 2012 ... That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, he is famous for saying ... corps in 1962 and became the first U.S. civilian to be blasted into space. ... its hazardous, nine-mile final descent to the moon's Sea of Tranquility. .... He got his pilot's license on his 16th birthday, before he was legally old...
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| Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first to walk on the moon, dies  Aug 25, 2012 ... CINCINNATI -- Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who ... Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, ... That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong said. ... Lunar Excursion Module he called Eagle down on the moon's Sea of...
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Fred Haise - Wikipedia  Fred Wallace Haise, Jr is an American aeronautical engineer, former naval aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having flown as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to land and walk on the Moon, but the ... He then worked for the newly created NASA, first as a research pilot at the...
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Space Shuttle Disintegrates; Seven Astronauts Killed | Fox News  Feb 1, 2003 ... Space Shuttle Columbia blew up and disintegrated in flames over ... killing all seven astronauts aboard and scattering debris over four ... Published February 01, 2003 ... "great sadness" to the country, and that "our entire nation grieves." ... Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, was among the crew members.
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Photos of the Apollo 1 Fire: NASA's First Disaster - Space.com  Jan 27, 2013 ... The fire that claimed the lives of three NASA astronauts on January 27, 1967 exposed ... 27, 1967, Apollo 1's crewVirgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffeewas killed when a fire erupted in their capsule during testing. Here, the trio post at their Florida launch pad during training.
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THE SHUTTLE INQUIRYMEN IN THE NEWS - NEIL ALDEN ...  Feb 4, 1986 ... Since that walk he has largely avoided the limelight. ... Sea of Tranquility on July 21, 1969, ''That's one small step for man, one ... At the age of 6, he recalled, he became enchanted with flight when he and his ... He obtained his pilot's license on his 16th birthday. ... He remained at the univeristy until 1980.
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Neil Armstrong - Wikipedia  Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930  August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the ... On July 18, 1969, while flying towards the Moon inside the Columbia, ... On August 16, 1950, two weeks after his 20th birthday, Armstrong was .... one of two civilian pilots selected for the second group; the other was Elliot See,...
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John L. Swigert Jr. - International Space Hall of Fame :: New Mexico ...  Command Module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. John "Jack" Swigert, Jr. was born on August 30, 1931, in Denver, Colorado. A graduate of East High School ... Swigert, Spacecraft Commander Jim Lovell, Jr. and Lunar Module pilot Fred Haise, Jr. blasted off for the moon on April 11, 1970. Lovell and Haise were to...
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Another Moonwalker Gone: Apollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell Has ...  Feb 5, 2016 ... Fellow Apollo 14 astronaut (and first American in space) Al Shepard died in 1998 at the age of 74; CM pilot Stu Roosa passed away in 1994 at...
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Apollo 1 (AS-204) | National Air and Space Museum  ... a fire claimed the lives of three U.S. astronauts; Gus Grissom, Ed White and ... Apollo 1 AstronautsTragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test for ... It would have been launched on February 21, 1967, but Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the...