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Journal Courier Tuesday October 23 2007 A2 SPACE CONTINUED ROM PAGE Al gotten to the Cernan was quoted a saying it had not happened when it did an accident could have and probably would have hap pened somewhere in space And that might have terminat ed the program before we ever got After the Apollo 1 disaster NASA implemented several changes to the design and launch pad procedures These included installing a single easier to open hatch decreasing the cabin oxygen concentration during launch modifying parts to make them less flammable and improving rescue procedures caused them to rebuild the shuttle completely to go back and do it all over said John Norberg author of Wings of their Dreams Steven Dick chief historian for NASA noted how strong the urgency was to reach the moon before the Soviets He said the Challenger explo sion in 1986 and the Columbia break up in 2003 caused years of delays before space explo ration continued the Challenger or Co lumbia it took us two or three years to get back into space We did if quickly back Dick said than two years after that accident (Apollo 1) we had people on the Purdue has honored Chaffee and Grissom through the years A wall in the main lobby of the Neil Armstrong Hall of En gineering is a tribute to Chaffee with pictures of him and infor mation about his life as well as a moon rock his wife loaned the university from NASA Grissom Hall is named for Gus Grissom And NASA has put the names on several ob jects in space A crater on the far side of the moon is named after Chaffee as well as Chaffee Hill on Mars And name ap pears on Marina Grissom a landmark on the moon and Grissom Hill on Mars Michael Smith associate professor of history at Purdue said the tragedy could have been avoided had the Cold War not kept the United States and the Soviet Union from working together on space exploration Smith said several years ear lier a Russian cosmonaut was burned severely and later died after a fire started in the oxygen rich environment in his capsule The Russians fixed the problem but tell anyone it had happened we been communi cating with each other rather than competing with each other we might have Smith said Smith said always been NASA file photo M111 flfl fl Astronauts (left to right) Gus Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee at the Kennedy Space Center The astronauts later died in a fire on the launch pad About this series Today's story is the third in a series leading up to the dedication Saturday of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering Sunday: Purdue's next step in astronautics interested in Grissom because of his passion for the space program showed such a personal Monday: Kennedy's speech fueled dreams Wednesday: Reaching the moon Where were you? 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