Gus grissom, one of the original mercury astronauts, First American astronaut to go twice into space, edward white, 36 years old, the First American to walk into space, and rookie astronaut rogerok chaffee, trainingni for his first space spa space flightu n31st. The fire hit at about 66 30 xd tonight. They were5a inside the spaceshi pressurized, buttoned up inside u qmwhen the firen hit. A Closedcircuit Television camera was relaying pictures of the astronauts lying on their ram the two state saturn one. It according to a nasa spokesman watching the televisionni scree in the block house a few hundred yards away from launchpad 34. The screen went blank and he saidxd there was noxd cgm unica from the astronauts. Silently and apparently swiftly. Their bodies have beenxdni lpa the spacecraft, according to the latest information from theq cape, pending an investigation president johnson tonight mourned the death of the three astronauts, he said they gave service, our brave men in uniform, w