Apollo 1 Hills

NASA astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White perished in a flash fire which engulfed their command module on January 27, 1967, while training for the first of the crewed Apollo missions, initially designated as Apollo Saturn-204 (AS-204). The craft was set to launch three weeks later, on February 21, 1967. Mission Command Pilot Grissom had flown in both Mercury and Gemini programs. ==Location==

The three vastly separated hills are located in the Gusev crater, part of the Aeolis quadrangle on Mars. The hills are named in memory of the three Apollo 1 astronauts. Grissom Hill is located 7.5 km (4.7 mi) southwest of the Columbia Memorial Station (at Martian co-ordinates ); while 11.2 km (7.0 mi) to the northwest lies White Hill; and Chaffee Hill is located 14.3 km (8.9 mi) south-southwest of the station. As of January 2020, however, the International Astronomical Union has not officially designated the hills with the names of the astronauts. ==Panoramic view==