Apollo 1: Fire in the Cockpit

January 27, 1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died locked in the Apollo 1 capsule during a routine "plugs out" test - in pure oxygen.

Below: Gene Cernan, fellow astronaut and next door neighbor to Roger Chaffee,
& Martha Chaffee.

 Sheryl Chaffee, Martha Chaffee, Gene Cernan (the last man on the moon),
and Stephen Chaffee.

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Martha marries William Canfield in 1968: