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=== Launch Complex 34 === {{Main|Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 34}} After the Apollo 1 fire, [[Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 34|Launch Complex 34]] was subsequently used only for the launch of Apollo{{nbsp}}7 and later dismantled down to the concrete launch pedestal, which remains at the site ({{Coord|28.52182|N|80.56126|W|type:landmark_region:US-FL_scale:10000}}) along with a few other concrete and steel-reinforced structures. The pedestal bears two plaques commemorating the crew.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fast Facts |url=http://www.cmgww.com/historic/white/about/facts.html |access-date=September 15, 2021 |website=The Official Site of Edward White II |publisher=Estate of Edward H. White II}}</ref> The "[[Ad astra|Ad Astra per aspera]]" plaque for "the crew of Apollo 1" is seen in the 1998 film ''[[Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon]]''.<ref>{{Citation|title=Ad astra per aspera| date=June 25, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKN9w_yoXkk&t=30|language=en|access-date=February 13, 2022}}</ref> The "Dedicated to the living memory of the crew of the Apollo 1" plaque is quoted at the end of [[Wayne Hale]]'s [[Requiem (short story)|Requiem]] for the NASA [[Space Shuttle program]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Where is Delos D. Harriman when we need him? β Wayne Hale's Blog|url=https://blogs.nasa.gov/waynehalesblog/2010/01/29/post_1264807222807/|access-date=February 13, 2022|website=blogs.nasa.gov|date=January 29, 2010 |language=en-US}}</ref> Each year the families of the Apollo{{nbsp}}1 crew are invited to the site for a memorial, and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex includes the site during the tour of the historic Cape Canaveral launch sites.<ref>{{cite web |title=Up Close Cape Canaveral: Then and Now Tour |url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/things-to-do/ksc-up-close-then-and-now-tour.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413045642/https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/things-to-do/ksc-up-close-then-and-now-tour.aspx |archive-date=April 13, 2016 |publisher=[[Kennedy Space Center]] }}</ref> In January 2005, three granite benches, built by a college classmate of one of the astronauts, were installed at the site on the southern edge of the launch pad. Each bears the name of one of the astronauts and his military service insignia. <gallery> KSC Launch Complex 34.jpg|Launch pedestal, with dedication plaque on the rear of right post Pad 34 astronaut memorial.jpg|Memorial kiosk Apollo1plaque.JPG|Dedication plaque attached to launch platform LC34plaque2.jpg|Memorial plaque attached to launch platform LC34 memorial benches.jpg|Granite [[memorial bench]]es on the edge of the launch pad </gallery>
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