Apollo 1 : the tragedy that put us onthe moon / Ryan S. Walters.

On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away. All three astronauts were exper...

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Main Author: Walters, Ryan S., 1973- (Author)
Other Authors: Kenerly, Kevin (Narrator)
Language:English
Published: Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, [2021]
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