MEDAL OF HONOR
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor has been awarded posthumously by President Clinton to two NASA astronauts, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee and Air Force Lt. Col. Edward H. White 2nd. They were killed in a launch pad fire in January 1967. The third Apollo astronaut killed in the fire, USAF Lt...
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