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* Chaffee is remembered in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, the Roger B. Chaffee Memorial Boulevard in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming ( at the location of the old Kent County Airport ), and the Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship, awarded annually to exceptional students in math and science in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area.
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Gus Grissom is buried in Section 3 of the Arlington National Cemetery, near Roger Chaffee.
Chaffee and Grissom are both buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, while White is buried at West Point Cemetery.
General Chaffee commented, " It is safe to say that where one real Boxer has been killed ... fifty harmless coolies or laborers on the farms, including not a few women and children, have been slain.
Chaffee County is one of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States.
Chaffee County is known as the “ Heart of the Rockies ”.
Whitinsville has been designated as a mill village of national historic significance to America's earliest industrialization, and is one of only four villages selected by the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor Commission to receive this designation.
Chaffee is a city in Scott County, Missouri, United States.
Chaffee is located at ( 37. 179706 ,-89. 659353 ).
Lyme is home to the Chaffee Natural Conservation Area.
Orwell is the birthplace of General Adna Chaffee, and of Russell Allen, as of 2006 the oldest living American Olympic cyclist.
Today North Smithfield is part of the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.
Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during Gemini 3's flight
A local water source since 2010 is located in Ruby Mountain Springs, Chaffee County, Colorado.
Mount Columbia is a mountain in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.
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.
The Loomis Chaffee student council is a student group that is elected at the end and beginning of every year.
The Loomis Chaffee Log is the student-run, school-sponsored newspaper.
Published monthly by a large team of student editors, The Log is now in its 94th year as principle chronicle of life at Loomis Chaffee.
His son is Rhode Island Governor and former Senator Lincoln Chaffee.
Chaffee is a similar-sized crater that lies partly across the southwest section of the inner ring.
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Roger Bruce Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eagle Scout and graduated from Central High School.
* Location of Roger B. Chaffee Memorial Drive in Grand Rapids
The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, named for astronaut Roger B. Chaffee, was constructed in the early 1960s as part of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.
The Chaffee, then known as the Planetarium of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, came under the curatorship of David L. DeBruyn in 1964.
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* The Roger B. Chaffee Lodge at Gerber Scout Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan.
He prepped at Loomis Chaffee School and played collegiately at the University of Michigan.
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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.
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.
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.
Charred remains of the Apollo 1 Apollo Command / Service Module | command module, in which White was killed along with Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee
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.
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.
And women's freestyle was now a full fledged sport with pioneers like Suzie Chaffee, Genia Fuller, Karen Huntoon, Marion and Ellen Post and Penelope Street redefining the sport for women.
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.
On February 10 the two counties were renamed, with the southern part of Lake County becoming Chaffee County, and Carbonate County becoming Lake County.
Production was completed with their help at Fort Chaffee United States Army Ready Reserve base at Fort Smith ( where Elvis Presley had done his basic training ).
In 1911, The First National Bank of Chaffee issued $ 392, 320 in " National Currency " with the permission of the United States Department of the Treasury, giving Chaffee the distinction of being a city with its own currency.
He worked successfully for World Vision with Vietnamese refugees at a resettlement camp at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, after a brief visit to Lebanon for the same work.
When the war began in June 1950, the four American infantry divisions on occupation duty in Japan had no medium tanks at all, having only one active tank company ( equipped with M24 Chaffee light tanks ) each.
In late 1966, Schirra was assigned to command a three-man Apollo crew with Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham to make the second manned flight test of the Apollo Command / Service Module some time in 1967, after the first such flight to be made by Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
Interestingly, AMX-13 variants with Chaffee turret also existed.
Porter's competes in the Founders League with Choate Rosemary Hall, Hotchkiss, Kingswood-Oxford, Loomis Chaffee, Taft and Westminster schools.
; AMX-13: Some initial vehicles were fitted with the turret of the M24 Chaffee
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