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== Remains of CM-012 == [[File:Apollo 1 hatch.jpg|thumb|Actual Apollo{{nbsp}}1 hatch on display at the Kennedy Space Center Apollo Saturn{{nbsp}}V complex]] The Apollo 1 command module has never been on public display. After the accident, the spacecraft was removed and taken to Kennedy Space Center to facilitate the review board's disassembly in order to investigate the cause of the fire. When the investigation was complete, it was moved to the NASA [[Langley Research Center]] in Hampton, Virginia, and placed in a secured storage warehouse.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pearlman |first=Robert |date=February 17, 2007 |title=NASA Langley Research Center: Apollo 1 (CM-012) |url=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000029.html |access-date=April 13, 2016 |website=collectSPACE}}</ref> On February 17, 2007, the parts of CM-012 were moved approximately {{convert|90|ft|m}} to a newer, environmentally controlled warehouse.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weil |first=Martin |date=February 18, 2007 |title=Ill-Fated Apollo 1 Capsule Moved to New Site |page=C5 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701760.html}}</ref> Only a few weeks earlier, Gus Grissom's brother Lowell publicly suggested CM-012 be permanently entombed in the concrete remains of [[Launch Complex 34]].<ref name="pilotonlineapolloone">{{Cite news |last=Tennant |first=Diane |date=February 17, 2007 |title=Burned Apollo I capsule moved to new storage facility in Hampton |work=[[The Virginian-Pilot|PilotOnline.com]] |url=http://hamptonroads.com/node/224831 |access-date=June 9, 2012 |archive-date=October 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031131339/http://hamptonroads.com/node/224831 }}</ref> On January 27, 2017, the 50th anniversary of the fire, NASA put the hatch from Apollo{{nbsp}}1 on display at the Saturn V Rocket Center at [[Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex]]. KSC's Visitor Complex also houses memorials that include parts of [[Space Shuttle Challenger|''Challenger'']] and [[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia,'']] located in the Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' exhibit. "This is way, way, way long overdue. But we're excited about it," said Scott Grissom, [[Gus Grissom]]'s older son.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 25, 2017 |title=50 years later, NASA displays fatal Apollo capsule |url=https://thehornnews.com/50-years-later-nasa-displays-fatal-apollo-capsule/ |access-date=March 13, 2019 |website=The Horn News}}</ref>
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