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 ...

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.

It provides an in-depth look at the lives and families of the three Apollo 1 astronauts — Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White — who were killed when a fire swept through their ...

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 ...