In Memory Of All Who Lost There Life In Any Of NASA's Space Programs.
Apollo 1: was scheduled to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program, with a target launch date of February 21, 1967. A cabin fire broke out during a launch pad test on January 27 at Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral killed all three crew members. Immediately after the fire, NASA convened the Apollo 204 Accident Review Board to determine the cause of the fire. Although the ignition source was never conclusively identified, the astronauts' deaths were attributed to a wide range of lethal design and construction flaws in the early Apollo Command Module. The manned phase of the project was delayed for twenty months while these problems were corrected.The Saturn IB launch vehicle, SA-204, scheduled for use on this mission, was later used for the first unmanned Lunar Module test flight, Apollo 5.The first successful manned Apollo mission was flown by Apollo 1's backup crew on Apollo 7 in October, 1968.
Crew: Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, aged 40: Command Pilot, Edward H. White II, aged 36: Senior Pilot, Roger B. Chaffee aged 31: Pilot. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ More coming soon.
STS-135: U.S. Honor Flag
Astronauts lost in the line of duty to join those honored by the flag.