. On this day in 1967 – January 27th – the crew of Apollo 1, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, died when fire swept through the command module during a preflight test.
They are commemorated at the Astronaut Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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