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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A kiosk near what remains of the once majestic gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida describes the historic events that took place there. On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky