https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/27-january-1967/ Important Dates in Aviation History Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:53:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/27-january-1967/#comment-56538 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:53:45 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=205#comment-56538 As a young cadet in 1960, I met several Mercury-7 astronauts during a training mission at the Morehead Planetarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. In the group was (than) Cpt Gus Grissom-intelligent yet very friendly-a good guy. I followed his career as someone keeps track of a Major League player. Years later, while in SEA, several days after this accident, I heard about it. His loss to me was as personally devastating as anything else in this timeframe.
Many times I have wondered, if not this accident, would he have been the first on the moon/ He certainly was worthy.
God Bless ‘Gus,Gus’
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]]> https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/27-january-1967/#comment-56514 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:08:11 +0000 http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/?p=205#comment-56514 …the Apollo Command Module was re-thought, and re-made in very little time: some faulty procedures endured and endangered Apollo 13. Being a space pioneer is dangerous.

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