CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule ... nation's service." James E.

James McDonnell himself, but North American was a very different corporate beast. Yet North American faced its own challenges, notably NASA’s mandate that the Apollo capsule should possess a ...

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding ... was commander, James Lovell navigator ...