Roger B. Chaffee
Roger B. Chaffee
Roger Bruce Chaffee,, was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee was selected to be an astronaut along with 13 other pilots as a part of NASA Astronaut Group 3. In 1967, Chaffee perished in a fire along with fellow astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Edward H. White during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the then-Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida. Chaffee was posthumously awarded...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth15 February 1935
CountryUnited States of America
The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.
Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.
We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.