Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...

From left, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee. NASA holds a Day of Remembrance every year in late January or early February because, though decades apart, the agencies ...