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NOW lets take a look back through some of NASA's other tragedies and other space crafts.......

The Crew Of the Apollo 1.... Virgil I. Grissiom ... Comander Edward H. White II Roger B.Chaffee These 3 men lost their lives on the launch pad...

Apollo 1 ... She would never make it off the launch pad .... January 27, 1967. Tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204), which was scheduled to be the first Apollo manned mission, and would have been launched on February 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module (CM). The exhaustive investigation of the fire and extensive reworking of the CMs postponed any manned launch until NASA officials cleared the CM for manned flight. Saturn 1B schedules were suspended for nearly a year, and the launch vehicle that finally bore the designation AS-204 carried a Lunar Module (LM) as the payload, not the Apollo CM. The missions of AS-201 and AS-202 with Apollo spacecraft aboard had been unofficially known as Apollo 1 and Apollo 2 missions (AS-203 carried only the aerodynamic nose cone). In the spring of 1967, NASA's Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr. George E. Mueller, announced that the mission originally scheduled for Grissom, White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1, and said that the first Saturn V launch, scheduled for November 1967, would be known as Apollo 4. The eventual launch of AS-204 became known as the Apollo 5 mission (no missions or flights were ever designated Apollo 2 and 3).

BURNT Apollo 1 Capsule

The Fire Damaged Apollo 1 capsule these two photos where taken in the storage whare house were the apollo 1 was taken for investagation

APOLLO 4 On The Launch Pad

APOLLO 4 Launching

Apollo 4 an un manned flight into space ...

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