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During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...
Crew members of NASA's Apollo 1 mission were honored this week at the Arlington National Cemetery for the tragedy that was the first in American space program history. More than half a century ago, a ...
A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...