Press Release Images: Spirit

27-Jan-2004 Martian Landmarks Dedicated to Apollo 1 Crew Full Press Release   NASA Dedicates Martian Landmarks To Apollo 1 Crew An image taken from Spirit's PanCam looking west depicts the nearby hills named after the astronauts of the Apollo 1. The crew of Apollo 1 perished in flash fire during a launch pad test of their Apollo spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, Fl. on January 27, 1967. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell Browse Image | Medium Image (700 kB) | Large (5.8 MB) An image taken by the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera of the Columbia Memorial Station and the nearby hills named after the Apollo 1 crew. "Grissom Hill" is located 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) to the Southwest of the rover Spirit's landing site. "White Hill" is 11.2 kilometers (7 miles) Northwest of its position and "Chaffee Hill" is 14.3 kilometers (8.9 miles) south-Southwest of Spirit. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell Browse Image | Medium Image (475 kB) | Large (3.5 MB) The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom. Browse Image (38 kB)

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