Launch Complex 34: Apollo 1

Wednesday October 24, 2007 - CAPE CANAVERAL AF STATION: Launch Complex 34 is a very moving stop on the tour. Shadowing all the success of the Mercury, Gemini, and very early Apollo programs was the tragedy that occured here - on 27 January 1967 - when astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a fire during an "all-plugs-out" test inside their Apollo Command Module. Here are some photos, Then and Now (the older photos on the left are NASA photos).



.....Then............and Now






........Then..................and Now


Godspeed to the crew of Apollo 1

This is the abandoned LC-34 Launch Pedastal and Mobile Blast Deflectors. Note the Launch Tower in the background... that's LC-37 with a live Delta-IV-Heavy Air Force Rocket under the Mobile Service Structure. It is scheduled to launch on November 10th.