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January 28, 1967
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1967
* Apollo 1 fire disaster
* Gus Grissom & more killed
This 16 page (1st section only) newspaper has a nice two line banner headline on the front page:
* 3 Astronauts Die in Apollo Fire During Test of Moon-Trip Craft
with subhead: "Grissom, White, Rookie Chaffee Trapped on Pad" and photo. (see)
Tells of the Apollo 1 disaster at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Other news of thew day. Address label within masthead, otherwise good. This is the 1st section only (16 pages), missing the other sections for that day.
wikipedia notes: Apollo 1 (official designation Apollo/Saturn-204) was planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing program to launch in February 1967. Its flight was precluded by a fatal fire on January 27, which killed all three crew members (Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee), and destroyed the Command Module cabin. This occurred during a pre-launch test of the spacecraft on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral. The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was officially assigned retroactively in commemoration of them.
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