David E.Sanger; Thom Shanker (January 14, 2014). "N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway into Computers". The deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee in the Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967 put a short lived hold on the U.S. There must be some deeper story right here, because by any reckoning the decision was bizarre -- although not practically as bizarre as the fact that a U.S. The National Security Agency signed for the U.S.