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January 27, 2006
What Price Space? (Apollo 1)
Thirty-nine years ago (1967) on this day, NASA's AS-204* mission crew, astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, perished when an electrical short sparked a flash fire inside the oxygen rich environment of their command module during a launch rehearsal. They were the first Americans to die in a spacecraft. NASA renamed the mission Apollo 1 to honor the crew.
*Apollo/Saturn 204
![[ image: Apollo 1 Mission Patch ]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/tacitus/apollo_1_patch.png)
Posted by Tacitus at January 27, 2006 05:32 PM