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Hello! This is to let editors know that the featured picture File:Roger B. Chaffee at a console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.jpg, which is used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for March 23, 2021. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2021-03-23. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 3 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was to have been a pilot on Apollo 1, but died in a fire on January 27, 1967, with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White, during a pre-launch test for the mission. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. This photograph shows Chaffee at a console at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston during the Gemini 3 mission on March 23, 1965.

Photograph credit: NASA

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