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Westgate points to a photograph of the Apollo command module which housed a crew of three. On Jan. 27, 1967, a cabin fire killed the three American astronauts during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission.

Westgate points to a photograph of the Apollo command module which housed a crew of three. On Jan. 27, 1967, a cabin fire killed the three American astronauts during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission.

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.