 Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were buried at Arlington National Cemetery . Ed White was buried at West Point Cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point , New York . Their names are among those of several astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the line of duty , listed on the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island , Florida . President Jimmy Carter awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor posthumously to Grissom on October 1 , 1978 . President Bill Clinton awarded it to White and Chaffee on December 17 , 1997 . 
