Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967), (
Lt Cmdr,
USN), was an
American naval officer and
aviator,
aeronautical engineer,
test pilot, and
NASA astronaut in the
Apollo program. Chaffee died along with fellow astronauts
Virgil "Gus" Grissom and
Edward H. White during a pre-launch test for the
Apollo 1 mission at the then-
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station,
Florida, in 1967. Chaffee was posthumously awarded the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Navy
Air Medal.