The three crew members for the Apollo-Saturn 204 (AS-204, later renamed Apollo 1) mission check out the couch installation on the Apollo Command Module (CM) at North American's Downey facility.

The Apollo 1 tribute at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center opened Jan. 27, 2017. Launch Staff Badges. NASA/Kim Shiflett .

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 ...

50 years since deadly Apollo 1 fire 03:51. ... The Saturn 1B rocket atop pad 34 at what is now the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was not fueled for flight and the test was not considered hazardous.

The launch of Apollo 1 was slated for February 21st, 1967, ... It was scheduled to be launched aboard a Saturn IB, a cousin of the famous Saturn V that wound up taking Neil Armstrong, ...

A new exhibit will open to the public Friday at the Apollo-Saturn V Center here that honors the Apollo 1 crew and highlights lessons learned from the tragedy that ultimately enabled the Apollo 11 ...

SA-1 lifted off at 11:06 a.m. EDT (15:06 UTC) on 27 October 1961, beginning the first flight test of the Apollo program. The SA-1 mission lasted eight minutes and four seconds, reaching an ...

Ultimately, he became part of the crew for the Apollo Saturn 205, showcasing his professionalism and engineering skills amidst the pressures of public attention and the tragic loss of the prime crew.

The Saturn V rocket was able to attain 24,791 miles per hour with Apollo 10, setting the record for the fastest reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

Tragic and haunting final words of Apollo 1 astronauts before being torched alive In 1967, the first ever Apollo spaced mission failed before it had even got off the ground when it burst into ...

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, pioneering Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee died here in their spacesuits while sealed inside their command module atop a massive Saturn IB ...