Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15 1935 – January 27 1967) (Lt Cmdr USN) was a Naval Aviator aeronautical engineer and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the then-Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Florida in 1967. Chaffee was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Navy Air Medal.
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