Ryan S. Walters, an independent historian, teaches at Collin College and is the author of Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President and Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Started a Revolution. He lives in North Texas with his wife, Candice.
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On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than ... SEE MORE