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Apollo 1 crew honored for paving NASA path to Moon
Forty years after the Pad 34 fire, Virgil Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee were remembered for catalyzing safety and design reforms that enabled later missions to reach the Moon. NASA figures and Chaffee's widow attended the memorial at Kennedy Space Center as the nation marked the Challenger and Columbia anniversaries.
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