Tag: Apollo 1

Remembering our Lost Space Heroes – NASA KSC Day of Remembrance 2021: Photos

For SpaceUpClose.com KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL – “Space is hard.” A commonly used expression often heard in our community. But on three separate occasions, that observation became perfectly clear. Apollo 1, January 27,1967. Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed as they were preparing for the pre-launch ‘plugs out’ test when a fire suddenly and without