Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, and
NASA astronaut. He was to have been a pilot on
Apollo 1, but died in a fire on January 27, 1967, with fellow astronauts
Gus Grissom and
Ed White, during a pre-launch test for the mission. He was posthumously awarded the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor. This photograph shows Chaffee at a console at NASA's
Mission Control Center in
Houston during the
Gemini 3 mission on March 23, 1965.Photograph credit:
NASA
Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, and
NASA astronaut. He was to have been a pilot on
Apollo 1, but died in a fire on January 27, 1967, with fellow astronauts
Gus Grissom and
Ed White, during a pre-launch test for the mission. He was posthumously awarded the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor. This photograph shows Chaffee at a console at NASA's
Mission Control Center in
Houston during the
Gemini 3 mission on March 23, 1965.Photograph credit:
NASA