RECEIVED JUST PRIOR TO THE DEATHS OF GRISSOM, WHITE, AND CHAFFEE. Circular Apollo 1 crew emblem, 3 ½ inches in diameter. Features a Command/Service Module in earth orbit with the moon in the distance. Displayed with a Typed Letter Signed by GORDON COOPER from his personal stationery. GORDON COOPER'S signed provenance letter reads: "The Apollo 1 cloth crew "patch" displayed with this letter was given to me by Virgil "Gus" Grissom in 1966 and is one of the first production runs of this emblem. Gus and I were both selected by NASA in 1959 as part of the Mercury "Original Seven" Astronauts. Gus flew the second manned Mercury flight in 1961, a 15 minute sub-orbital flight using a Redstone rocket. He then commanded the first manned Gemini flight in March 1965 called Gemini 3. Gus started extensive training for Apollo flights and was selected to command Apollo 1 in early 1966. It came as a shock to us in the Astronaut Office as well as the entire nation and the world that he with crew members Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a spacecraft fire on the launch pad on January 27, 1967. Gus and the Apollo 1 crew gave their lives to help the United States reach the goal of landing on the moon by the end of 1969."
RECEIVED JUST PRIOR TO THE DEATHS OF GRISSOM, WHITE, AND CHAFFEE. Circular Apollo 1 crew emblem, 3 ½ inches in diameter. Features a Command/Service Module in earth orbit with the moon in the distance. Displayed with a Typed Letter Signed by GORDON COOPER from his personal stationery. GORDON COOPER'S signed provenance letter reads: "The Apollo 1 cloth crew "patch" displayed with this letter was given to me by Virgil "Gus" Grissom in 1966 and is one of the first production runs of this emblem. Gus and I were both selected by NASA in 1959 as part of the Mercury "Original Seven" Astronauts. Gus flew the second manned Mercury flight in 1961, a 15 minute sub-orbital flight using a Redstone rocket. He then commanded the first manned Gemini flight in March 1965 called Gemini 3. Gus started extensive training for Apollo flights and was selected to command Apollo 1 in early 1966. It came as a shock to us in the Astronaut Office as well as the entire nation and the world that he with crew members Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a spacecraft fire on the launch pad on January 27, 1967. Gus and the Apollo 1 crew gave their lives to help the United States reach the goal of landing on the moon by the end of 1969."
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