Rounding out the Apollo 1 crew was Pilot Roger Chaffee, an energetic rookie. The plan was that they would fly a 15-story Saturn IB rocket into Earth orbit in late February for a two-week shakedown ...
The only spacecraft to have delivered astronauts to the moon. In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket that launched ...
Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...
An electrical spark apparently turned the Apollo 1 capsule into an instant inferno ... Apollo cabin perched 218 feet atop a two-stage Saturn rocket. The bodies of the astronauts remained in ...
On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 ...