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Died:
27 January 1967
Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Edward White Gus Grissom Roger Chaffee

Born: Born: Born:
14 November 1930 3 April 1926 15 February 1935
San Antonio, Texas Mitchell, Indiana Grand Rapids Michigan

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Common Ancestor Common Ancestor Common Ancestor

Father: Thomas Cordray II Father: Willem Van Westervelt Father: Nathaniel Chaffee
Chute, Wiltshire, England Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands Nantasket Beach, Hull,
1493 – 1546 1618 – 1697 Plymouth, Massachusetts,
British Colonial America
1638 – 1721
Mother: Joan Seymore Mother: Dirkje Van Houten
Andover, Hampshire, England Utrecht, Netherlands Mother: Experience Bliss
1475 – 1550 1617 – 1704 Rehoboth, Plymouth, British
Colonial America
1649 – 1721

Edward Higgins White II was Virgil Ivan “Gus Grissom was Roger Bruce Chaffee was an
selected as one of the second a United States Air American naval officer naval
group of astronauts. He was Force (USAF) pilot and a and aviator, aeronautical
assigned as pilot of Gemini member of the Mercury engineer, and NASA
4 alongside command Seven selected by National astronaut in the Apollo
pilot James McDivitt. On June Aeronautics and Space program.
3, 1965, White became the Administration's (NASA) as

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