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Apollo 1
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Apollo 1
Apollo 1
(initially designated
AS-204
) was the first manned mission of the U.S.
Apollo manned lunar landing program
. The planned
low Earth orbital
test of the
Apollo Command/Service Module
never made its target launch date of February 21, 1967, because a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test on January 27 at
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34
killed all three crew members—Command Pilot
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom
, Senior Pilot
Edward H. White II
, and Pilot
Roger B. Chaffee
—and destroyed the Command Module (CM). The name
Apollo 1
, chosen by the crew, was officially retired by
NASA
in commemoration of them on April 24, 1967.
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