Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                       May 31, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-4164)

Cam Martin
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
(Phone:  804/864-6123)


RELEASE:  90-76

APOLLO 204 CAPSULE TO REMAIN AT THE LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER



     NASA has decided to keep the Apollo 204 capsule at the 
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., for an indefinite period 
of time.  The capsule has been stored at Langley since 1967.


     Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, Roger B. Chaffee and 
Edward H. White II perished in the Apollo 204 spacecraft fire on 
Jan. 27, 1967.  Their deaths occurred on Launch Complex 34, Cape 
Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during prelaunch tests for the 
first manned Apollo mission.

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