On January 27, 1967, during a test and training exercise at Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, the command module of the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission was destroyed by fire.
The crew training at that time was composed of the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo Program mission: Command Pilot Virgil I. Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. All three astronauts died in the fire.
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