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.

* 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.

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.

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.

* Chaffee Trail Elementary located off of Chaffee Road in Jacksonville, Florida, opened in July 2007.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

Turning down a possible appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, Chaffee accepted a Naval ROTC scholarship and in September 1953 enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

While at Purdue, Chaffee took flight training as part of the Naval ROTC program in order to prepare him for a career as a Naval Aviator, soloing on 29 March 1957 and obtained his private pilot's license on 24 May 1957.

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.

Chaffee at the consoles in Mission Control during the Gemini 3 mission.

On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

During the seventeen seconds that the fire raged, fed by pure oxygen at slightly greater than atmospheric pressure, Chaffee stayed strapped to his right-hand seat, as it was his job to maintain communications in an emergency, while White in the center seat apparently tried in vain to open the hatch.

* Chaffee Hall, an engineering building at Purdue University, his alma mater.

* The Roger B. Chaffee Lodge at Gerber Scout Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan.

* The movie Academy Boyz was shot at Loomis Chaffee in 1997.

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 ).

* Historic maps of Chaffee in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri

The Roaring Fork ( at Spring Valley ), and Timberline ( at Chaffee County ) campuses offer programs for training police officers.