[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 22, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REMEMBERING THE HEROES OF APOLLO ``1''

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, on September 12, 1962, at Rice University, 
President John Kennedy committed America to put a man on the Moon by 
the end of the decade.
  Unfortunately, tragedy struck America at 6:31 p.m. on January 27, 
1967. During a ground test of the Apollo crew module, a fire broke out. 
Within a few minutes, three brave space pioneers had lost their lives.
  We lost Roger Chaffee, who was training for his first mission into 
space. We lost Gus Grissom, the second American in space behind Alan 
Shepard; and we lost Ed White, the first American to do a space walk, 
and the man my elementary school in Houston was named after.
  Two-and-a-half years after the Apollo 1 fire, Neil Armstrong put his 
left foot on the Moon. It was a giant leap for mankind, one that would 
not have happened without the sacrifice of the Apollo 1 crew. May the 
world always remember these heroes.

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