The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.

The star Gamma Velorum was nicknamed "Regor" ("Roger" spelled backwards). The school was closed with the hand-over of the base to the Bermudian government and is now named Clearwater Middle School. The dismantled Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral bears two memorial plaques: One says They gave their lives in service to their country in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final frontier.

Chaffee was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Navy Air Medal. Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15 1935 – January 27 1967) Lieutenant Commander United States Navy was a Naval Aviator aeronautical engineer and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.