Fifty years ago today, the three-man Apollo 11 crew was halfway to the moon. Commander Neil Armstrong, lander pilot Buzz Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins did a 96-minute live TV ...
On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...
The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire that claimed the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Credit: NASA. NASA s Apollo program began with one of the worst disasters the ...
On January 27, 1967, a flash fire broke out inside the Apollo 1 Command Module during a launch pad test at Cape Canaveral Florida. Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were killed when they were ...