The Apollo fire remains one of America’s darkest ... 1986, and the Columbia disaster Feb. 1, 2003. But if a grain of optimism could be salvaged from Apollo 1, it is this: Without Grissom ...

The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of the U.S. space program. Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first flight that NASA would conduct to prepare for a crewed landing ...

The exhaustive investigation of the fire and extensive reworking of the Apollo ... 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January 28th, which is also the anniversary of the Challenger ...

On this date, Jan. 27, 1967, NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. A flash fire swept through the capsule so quickly ...

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, [...] ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...