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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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Another Anniversary
Excerpt: Rand Simberg pointed out yesterday that it was the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. I was too young to remember that event (being about two and a half years pre-birth at that time), but I do remember what...
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Another Anniversary
Excerpt: Rand Simberg pointed out yesterday that it was the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. I was too young to remember that event (being about two and a half years pre-birth at that time), but I do remember what...
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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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