RIP Apollo 1 astronauts Ed White (from left), Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, 1967. The astronauts died as a result of a fire in the cockpit during a training session on Jan. 27, 1967.
By an eerie coincidence, I was listening to
a song about this disaster just moments ago. I Googled it to read more about the incident only to find
an NPR report from Wednesday revealing that:
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...For 50 years, NASA kept the Apollo 1 command module locked up — until now. Beginning Friday, the hatch from the burned capsule will be put on public display at the Kennedy Space Center as a tribute to the sacrifices of Grissom, White and Chaffee.
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