The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

Because of the pressure of the fire, and the fact that the spacecraft's hatch opened inward, there was no hope of escape. Investigation of the Apollo 1 Accident Extensive reviews followed the ...

preceding Apollo 1's first orbital flight. The entire three-person crew perished in a fire. Before this calamitous incident, the crew's commander, Gus Grissom, criticised the capsule's safety.

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia ... to prepare for NASA's first moon landing, but the spacecraft never made it off the launch pad.

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed ...