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Thirty Seven Years Ago Today

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee died horribly, from asphyxiation and incineration, in a test of the Apollo capsule. It caused a massive overhaul of the Apollo program, but less than two years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.

Posted by Rand Simberg at January 27, 2004 08:36 AM
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More like 2 1/2 years, by my reckoning, between the Apollo 1 fire and the Apollo 11 landing. The anniversary of the tragedy had slipped my mind, but I remember both it and the later triumph quite well.

Posted by Charles at January 27, 2004 06:12 PM

More like 2 1/2 years, by my reckoning, between the Apollo 1 fire and the Apollo 11 landing. The anniversary of the tragedy had slipped my mind, but I remember both it and the later triumph quite well.

Posted by Charles at January 27, 2004 06:12 PM

D'oh!

Posted by Rand Simberg at January 27, 2004 06:15 PM


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