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...craft in which Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee burned to death in early...
...during their simulated missions. Before they blast off, Astronauts Schirra, Cunningham and Eisele will have spent an impressive 1,200 hours in preparing for their mission. They have had an unexpectedly long time to practice; this week's flight, scheduled for February 1967, was postponed after Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a spacecraft fire during an Apollo ground test at Cape Kennedy...
...Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee...
...seemed to develop a new morbidity. "I feel like now I'm marking time until I join her," he told a friend. To another he said: "I killed her." For $4,400, he bought from a used-car dealer the supercharged Corvette that once belonged to Astronaut Gus Grissom, careened it along Florida roads at up to 135 m.p.h...
Acquaintances recalled Wasik's traumatic reaction to the deaths of Astronauts Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee in the Apollo fire last January. Wasik wept, slashed his wrists, and at one point drove around Cape Kennedy pointing a pistol at his head...