Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in the capsule of Apollo 1, when a flash fire ripped through their cabin.
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Columbia, much like Challenger and Apollo 1, met an unimaginable fate.
But NASA mourned its dead and went right on working, fixing what had gone wrong on Apollo 1, and readying itself for the deadline Kennedy had given it.
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The award would be presented to each crewmember from all 12 three-man Apollo missions, including the Apollo 7 and 9 Earth-orbit flights as well as the Apollo 1 crew, which perished in a launch pad fire in 1967.
Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Activision Blizzard, Inc. ( NASD: ATVI) is up about 3.4%, Akamai Technologies Inc ( NASD: AKAM) is up about 1.7%, and Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is up by about 2.1%.
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Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 carried biology experiments known as Biostacks 1 and 2 beyond these belts (the moon is about 400, 000 kilometers away).
Unsurprisingly, Omega will produce 1, 972 pieces of this Speedmaster Moonwatch Apollo XVII limited edition watch.
In Friday trading, Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc. shares are currently up about 0.1% on the day.
Nasa is due to retire its space shuttles next year and replace them with the Orion spacecraft, an Apollo-like capsule that would launch on a new rocket called Ares 1.
Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Altera Corp. ( NASD: ALTR) is down about 0.8%, Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is off about 1.4%, and Applied Materials, Inc. ( NASD: AMAT) is lower by about 0.7%.
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled plans to recover the F-1 engines that powered the Saturn V rocket carrying Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
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In his ruling, Judge Stephen Lamb said if the deal did not close by Oct. 1, the termination date for the merger would be extended until the court determined that Apollo and Hexion had complied with the order.
Leading candidates include James McCann, founder of 1-800-Flowers, David Heller, a Goldman Sachs executive, and Marc Spiker of Apollo Global Management.
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