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The Apollo 1 crew was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal posthumously in a 1969 presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Apollo 11 crew. [76] He was posthumously awarded a second Air Medal. He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983 and into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, on October 4, 1997.
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, [1] ... Michigan, the largest suburb of Grand Rapids, ...
San Francisco: John Young (1930–2018), first NASA astronaut to fly five and six times, first man to orbit the Moon on two missions — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9 Pomona : Victor J. Glover , first African American astronaut to go to the ISS on a long-duration flight — SpaceX Crew-1
The mission, which the men named Apollo 1 in June, was originally planned for late 1966 to coincide with the last Gemini mission, but the impracticality of making the Gemini capsule and systems compatible with Apollo and delays in the spacecraft development pushed the launch into 1967. [49] [50] The launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February ...
Joseph Francis Shea (September 5, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager. Born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, he was educated at the University of Michigan, receiving a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 1955.
The Apollo program included three other crewed missions: Apollo 1 (AS-204) did not launch and its crew died in a ground-based capsule fire, while Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were low Earth orbit missions that only tested spacecraft components and docking maneuvers. Apollo missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled.
FanDuel Sportsbook Line: Michigan by 4 1/2. Series record: Michigan leads 8-5. WHAT’S AT STAKE. Michigan is playing for its first national championship since 1997 and Washington for its first ...
Ed White (COE: MSAE 1959, Hon. PhD Astronautics 1965), first American to walk in space part of an all UM crew, 1965; died in Apollo 1 test accident, 1967; Apollo 15's all-Michigan crew left a plaque on the Moon establishing a lunar chapter of the University of Michigan Alumni Association in 1971: [12]