Cancelled Spaceflights

Apollo 1

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Planning data

Launch date (planned):  February 1967

Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position
1  Grissom  Virgil Ivan "Gus"  CDR
2  White  Edward Higgins II  CMP
3  Chaffee  Roger Bruce  LMP

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Backup Crew (until December 1966)

No.   Surname Given names Position
1  McDivitt  James Alton  CDR
2  Scott  David Randolph  CMP
3  Schweickart  Russell Louis "Rusty"  LMP
 

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Backup Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position
1  Schirra  Walter Marty, Jr. "Wally"  CDR
2  Eisele  Donn Fulton  CMP
3  Cunningham  Ronnie Walter "Walt"  LMP

Mission objectives

Was planned as the first manned flight of an Apollo spacecraft (Block I, earth orbit version). On December 22, 1966 was announced that the crewmembers (Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham) of the then cancelled second Block I mission (Apollo 2 (AS-205)) would become the backup crew of Apollo 1. Gus Grissom (Commander), Edward White (Senior Pilot) and Roger Chaffee (Pilot) were killed in a fire while testing their capsule on the pad on January 27, 1967.

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