This Is A Sad Anniversary

Forty years ago today.

On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular activity during the Gemini program; and LCDR Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut preparing for his first space flight, died in this tragic accident.

Can't say that I actually remember it, I was five. But, I do remember hearing about it.