SlashDot has a mention of the Apollo 1 tragedy. As I recall, the flight was a test flight (#214?) and was renamed Apollo 1 retroactively (and posthumously). When I attended Florida Institute of Technology (near Cape Canaveral), my dorm room was 202 Grissom Hall. Kennedy said we’d put a man on the Moon within the decade, and we did. A lot of heroes put their lives on the line–literally–to make that dream happen. I’m glad to see that some of these sacrifices aren’t forgotten as time passes on.
January 27, 2002