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21 de ene. de 2019 · Early in 1962, Roger Chaffee applied to the NASA astronaut program. Accepted initially, he worked on a master's degree at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson in Ohio while waiting for the final determination. Chaffee's area of study was in reliability engineering, and while there he also continued adding to his flight ...
Roger Bruce Chaffee, né le 15 février 1935 à Grand Rapids ( Michigan) et mort le 27 janvier 1967 à Cap Canaveral ( Floride ), est un pilote américain, officier de la United States Navy, sélectionné comme astronaute dans le cadre du programme Apollo. Eagle Scout dans sa jeunesse, Chaffee obtient son diplôme de la Central High School en ...
Biographie. Die ersten sieben Lebensjahre wuchs Roger Chaffee in Greenville, Michigan, bei seinen Eltern Don und Blanche Chaffee auf.Don Chaffee war ein Doppeldecker-Pilot, der sich mit Passagier- und Fallschirmflügen und ab 1942 als angestellter Pilot der U.S. Artillerie sein Geld verdiente. Als er seinen Sohn im Alter von sieben Jahren mit auf einen Flug über den Michigansee nahm, stand ...
ROGER B. CHAFFEE (LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, USN) NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) PERSONAL DATA: Born February 15, 1935 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Died January 27, 1967, at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the Apollo spacecraft fire. He is survived by his wife Martha and two children. EDUCATION: Chaffee graduated from Central High School, Grand Rapids,
Here, LIFE.com recalls one of the worst disasters in NASA’s history—and its first public tragedy—when astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire inside their command module on a Cape Canaveral launchpad on Jan. 27, 1967. As TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger (the author of Apollo 13) once wrote, when commemorating the three ...
18 de oct. de 2021 · Roger Chaffee at Houston’s Mission Control Center during Project Gemini (Image credit: NASA). In 1964, the Chaffee family relocated to Houston and Roger Chaffee began his astronaut training.
