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The sun beams through what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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The sun beams through what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

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  • Title: The sun beams through what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
  • Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
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