Flight record
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Roger Bruce Chaffee was an American naval officer, aviator, and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Along with thirteen other pilots, Chaffee was selected to be an astronaut as part of NASA Astronaut Group 3 in 1963. He served as capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for the Gemini 3 and Gemini 4 missions and received his first spaceflight assignment in 1966 as the third-ranking pilot on Apollo 1. In 1967, he died in a fire along with fellow astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the mission at what was then the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34, Florida. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and a second Air Medal.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Grand Rapids
- Education
- Illinois Institute of Technology; Purdue University; United States Naval Academy; Innovation Central High School
- Awards
- Congressional Space Medal of Honor; International Space Hall of Fame; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Air Medal; Eagle Scout; and 2 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Saturn IB | Apollo 1 (Failure before launch)January 27, 1967 · 23:31 UTC
Born 1935-02-15 · died 1967-01-27, aged 31