3 astronauts lost in Apollo fire honored

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA’s storied Apollo program paid tribute Thursday to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago.

On the eve of the Apollo 1 anniversary, hundreds gathered at Kennedy Space Center to honor Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. They died during a countdown rehearsal at the launch pad, inside their burning spacecraft, on Jan. 27, 1967

NASA is opening an Apollo 1 exhibit today, featuring the hatch that prevented the three astronauts from escaping. It has been concealed for the past half-century along with the capsule. The families of Grissom, White and Chaffee got an early look Wednesday evening at the display at the visitor complex, and liked what they saw.

“Really awesome,” said daughter Sheryl Chaffee, who just retired from NASA. “It’s very fitting. We all feel like it’s about time.” routine maintenance project that didn’t require a detailed plan “are simply a post-accident circling of the wagons to deny supervisory or management involvement in the review of a project gone bad,” investigators wrote. Carolina — the first genderintegrated Marine infantry battalion.

Female Marines have private rooms and bathrooms in their living quarters, and female bathrooms have been added to buildings where Marines work. But female Marines will be expected to share any living spaces with male squad members in the field to keep unit cohesion and replicate battlefield conditions, he said.

“We’re not changing our tactical posture or changing how we operate to accommodate the inclusion of female Marines,” Anklam said. Thursday with caution by Russia and Turkey, which have taken the lead in the latest peace efforts to end the Mideast country’s devastating six-year war.

Turkey said it had always supported the idea, but both Ankara and Moscow warned such plans would require careful consideration. A senior European Union official said the bloc would consider such plans “when they come.”

The idea of safe zones, proposed by both Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton during the U.S. election campaign, was ruled out by the Obama administration for fear it would bring the United States into direct conflict with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russia, which has been waging an air campaign to aid Assad’s forces since September 2015.