This video is for a NASA Day of Remembrance. This video was created by NASA and their channel, which is linked below the relevant information. Credits to NASA and their creators of this video, and to the families and crews and all workers who support NASA. It is to honor the fallen crew members of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia, as well as other members of the NASA family who lost their lives supporting the agency's missions. Rest in peace to the crew members and lost lives, and may their memories live on. "Apollo 1 (official designation Apollo/Saturn-204) was planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program, set to launch in February 1967. Its flight was precluded by a fatal fire on January 27, which killed all three crew members (Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee), and destroyed the Command Module cabin. This occurred during a pre-launch test of the spacecraft on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral. The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was officially assigned retroactively in commemoration of them." en.wikipedia.org "Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first. Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all ...
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