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[b]Apollo module replica taking shape[/b] Purdue workers move one piece of the full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Tuesday (Oct. 9, 2007). The capsule, on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, in Hutchinson, Kan., will be assembled next week and on display during the hall's official dedication on Oct. 27. In 1967, two of the Apollo 1 astronauts, Purdue graduates Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee, died in a fire during a launch pad training exercise in the capsule.
[i]The capsule is on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and will hang from the ceiling in the atrium of Armstrong Hall. The 13-foot diameter replica is the same as the capsule on the outside but is hollow inside. Amy Noah, director of advancement for Purdue's College of Engineering, said the loan is indefinite, but only a two-year contract has been signed so far. She said the university plans to keep the capsule in the building as long as possible.[/i]
[b]Piece of the moon lands at Purdue[/b] Martha Chaffee presented a moon rock particle to Purdue President France A. Córdova on Saturday, Oct. 6, during half time of the Purdue-Ohio State football game. Chaffee, widow of astronaut and Purdue alumnus Roger Chaffee, permanently loaned the lunar sample to Purdue through a NASA program that allows select former astronauts or their spouses to give samples to the educational institution of their choice. Roger Chaffee earned his bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue in 1957. He was killed in 1967, along with Purdue alumnus Virgil "Gus" Grissom and fellow astronaut Ed White, in a launch pad fire while training for NASA's first Apollo mission. The moon particle was collected in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission commanded by Eugene Cernan, a Purdue alumnus and the last astronaut to walk on the moon. It weighs about 2 grams, or roughly as much as two U.S. dollar bills.
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