Roger B. Chaffee Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the then-Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, in 1967. Chaffee was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Navy Air Medal.
Problems ... look mighty small from 150 miles up. [In his last public interview before he died with astronauts Gus Grissom and Edward H. White II in a fire aboard Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, 23 Apr 1967]
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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.
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Fact
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His name has been memorialized many times in many places: a crater named Chaffee on the far side of the Moon; Chaffee Hill on Mars; the star Gamma Velorum was nicknamed "Regor" ("Roger" spelled backwards) in his honor; Island Chaffee, an artificial island in San Pedro Bay off Southern California; the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium in Grand Rapids, Michigan; the Roger B. Chaffee Memorial Boulevard in Wyoming; the Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship, awarded annually to exceptional students in math and science in Grand Rapids; and other parks, streets, and schools.
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Awarded the United States Navy Air Medal and posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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He was killed on 27 January 1967, along with astronauts Gus Grissom and Edward H. White II, when a fire swept through the capsule of the Apollo I spacecraft during a rocket test at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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One of the fourteen Apollo astronauts selected in 1963, the third group of astronauts chosen; Apollo I was to have been his first spaceflight.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Apollo Zero
2009
Documentary dedicatee - as Roger Chaffee
Beyond the Stars
1989
this film is dedicated to: the crew of Apollo I, who lost their lives on January 27, 1967 - as Lt. Commander Roger B. Chaffee
$850,000