( Huntsville also has schools named for Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and the lost space shuttles: Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School, Ed White Middle School, Challenger Middle School, and Columbia High School )

At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.

* Roger B. Chaffee Elementary in Huntsville, Alabama.

** Chaffee Elementary School ( K-06 )

Chaffee is located at ( 37. 179706 ,-89. 659353 ).

A local water source since 2010 is located in Ruby Mountain Springs, Chaffee County, Colorado.

The Loomis Chaffee School ( LC or Loomis ) is a premier coeducational boarding school for grades 9 – 12 and postgraduates located on a 300-plus acre campus in the Connecticut River Valley in Windsor, Connecticut, six miles ( 10 km ) north of Hartford.

Chaffee is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.

* Chaffee Hill ( after Roger Chaffee ) is located 14. 3 km ( 8. 9 mi ) south-southwest of Columbia Memorial Station

It is located in the Collegiate Peaks, part of the central Sawatch Range of Chaffee County, approximately 10 miles ( 16 km ) northwest of the town of Buena Vista.

It is located in the Sawatch Range in northwestern Chaffee County, approximately southwest of Leadville, Colorado, just south of Twin Lakes and State Highway 82 on the east side of Independence Pass.

The pass is located on the continental divide at the southern end of the Sawatch Range along the border between Gunnison and Chaffee counties, approximately west of the town of Salida.

Johnson Village is a small unincorporated community located in central Chaffee County, Colorado in the United States.

It is located in the central Sawatch Range in Chaffee County between the towns of Buena Vista and Salida.

* Island Chaffee, an artificial island in San Pedro Bay off Southern California.

On February 8, 1879, the Colorado legislature renamed Lake County as Carbonate County, although this designation name only lasted for two days, until Chaffee County was split off from Carbonate's southern section on February 10 and the remaining northern portion was redesignated Lake County with its current county seat of Leadville.

In 1926, their girls ’ division broke off to focus more closely on girls ’ educational issues and became The Chaffee School.

Their leader, Mara (" daughter " of a local physician, Dr. Alan Chaffee ; her mother, Barbara, commits suicide by walking off an ocean cliff ), considers him less important due to his expression of emotions.

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority and Clay County worked together to connect Branan Field Road in Clay County and Chaffee Road in Duval County.

| Chaffee Road

* 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ( then known as Cape Kennedy ), Florida.

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.

After attending flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida and Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, Chaffee was awarded his aviator wings in early 1959.

After the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnamese refugees began settling in refugee camps of Camp Pendleton, California, of Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Furthermore, he opened a state orphans home in Denver and a state reformatory in Chaffee County.

Chaffee married Martha Horn in Oklahoma City on August 24, 1957, whom he met while on a blind date in September 1955, and had two children, Sheryl Lyn ( born 17 November 1958 ) and Stephen ( born 3 July 1961 ).

The town of Amenia traces its roots to a group of wealthy New England investors from the villages of Amenia, New York and Sharon, Connecticut which formed the Amenia and Sharon Land Company and, in July 1875, under the representation of Eben W. Chaffee, purchased of land from the then bankrupt Northern Pacific Railroad.

The division was activated on 15 July 1943 at Camp Chaffee in Arkansas.

When the American Civil War broke out in July 1861, Chaffee enlisted in the Union Army as a Private in the U. S. 6th Cavalry Regiment.

Chaffee was sent to China in July as the commander of the U. S. Army ’ s China Relief Expedition.

In 2007, 14 Loomis Chaffee students were recognized as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, more than at any other school in Connecticut.

However, his term included an unpopular motor vehicle tax and citizens ' anger over the escape of Cuban refugees ( from the Mariel boatlift ) detained in Fort Chaffee in 1980.

* 1935 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut ( d. 1967 )

Although some proponents of mobile warfare — such as J. F. C. Fuller — advocated building " tank fleets ", others — such as Heinz Guderian in Germany, Adna R. Chaffee Jr. in the United States, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Soviet Union — recognized that tank units required close support from infantry and other arms, and that these supporting arms needed to maintain the same pace as the tanks.

** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

*** Roger Chaffee, American astronaut ( b. 1935 )

Apollo 1 crew, Edward Higgins White | White, Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee | Chaffee

Grissom was backup command pilot for Gemini 6A when he shifted to the Apollo program and was assigned as Command Pilot of the first manned mission AS-204, with Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee.

Gus Grissom is buried in Section 3 of the Arlington National Cemetery, near Roger Chaffee.

White died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Kennedy.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

White was buried with full military honors at West Point Cemetery while Grissom and Chaffee are both buried in Section 3 ( GPS Coordinates: 38. 873115 N ,-77. 072755 W ) of Arlington National Cemetery.