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Dreamer’s father recalls space pioneers and tragedy
The piece recounts Donald Chaffee and his son Roger Chaffee, with Roger’s Space Race biography and a Purdue Central High School scholarship story. It notes the 1967 Apollo 1 fire and the legacy funded by profits from the biography “Course to the Stars,” including scholarships at Purdue University and Central High School.
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Donald L. Charlee
Grand Rapids
Mich
Donald Chaffee
Ol Drilling
Ruger
Central High School
Purdue University
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Peru
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Roger
Michigan
Chaffee
Grissom
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Outer Space