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Grand Rapids native Roger Chaffee dies during Apollo 1 fire
January 28, 2022 @ 12:00 am
NASA’s space program changed forever on this day in 1967, when a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch rehearsal test. Roger Chaffee of Grand Rapids along with astronauts Gus Grissom and Edward White died in in fire. Though Chaffee never made it into space, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor