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Photos by LISA JAMES/ Press Retired engineer and technical writer Vern Westgate, as he flips through technical manuals from his time working for North American Aviation, talks about his involvement with the Apollo 1 mission. Jan. 27 is the 50th anniversary of the cabin fire that killed three American astronauts during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission. Westgate wrote the technical manual for the Apollo and was the liaison between the astronauts and the engineers, providing feedback for its development.

Photos by LISA JAMES/ Press Retired engineer and technical writer Vern Westgate, as he flips through technical manuals from his time working for North American Aviation, talks about his involvement with the Apollo 1 mission. Jan. 27 is the 50th anniversary of the cabin fire that killed three American astronauts during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission. Westgate wrote the technical manual for the Apollo and was the liaison between the astronauts and the engineers, pr…

January 24, 2017

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COEUR d’ALENE — Gazing into an operations manual, its edges beginning to yellow with age, Vern Westgate remembered his astronaut friends Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.