Chaffee, Roger B.
American astronaut
in full Roger Bruce Chaffee
born Feb. 15, 1935, Grand Rapids, Mich., U.S.
died Jan. 27, 1967, Cape Kennedy, Fla.
U.S. astronaut who was a member of the three-man Apollo (Apollo program) 1 crew killed when a flash fire swept their space capsule during a simulation of a launching scheduled for Feb. 21, 1967. Chaffee died along with the veteran space travellers Virgil I. Grissom (Grissom, Virgil I.) and Edward H. White II (White, Edward H., II). They were the first casualties of the U.S. space program.After earning his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., in 1957, Chaffee became a Navy pilot. He was chosen as one of the third group of astronauts in 1963.
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