President Johnson mourned the deaths as a "tragic ... least three months. Astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn E. Eisele and Walter Cunningham were the backup team for Apollo 1 and presumably will ...

Many of the astronauts distanced themselves from Mitchell for these activities, but he remained steadfast in his beliefs ...

The Space Mirror Memorial is engraved with the names of the crews of three space missions along with astronaut candidates who died in accidents ... test ahead of the Apollo 1 mission launch ...

The night before an unpowered (“plugs-out”) test of Apollo 1 that took place Jan. 27, 1967, fellow astronaut Wally Schirra pulled Grissom aside. He too hated the Block 1 design. “If you get ...

NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January 28th, which is also the anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

Former NASA astronaut William Anders was killed ... first person to step foot on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Anders' death was confirmed by his son, Greg Anders, who said the ...

On this date in 1967, a flash fire onboard the Apollo 1 capsule during a test procedure claimed the lives of three astronauts.

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths ... Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the ...

Many of the astronauts distanced themselves from Mitchell for these activities, but he remained steadfast in his beliefs until his death in 2016. Apollo 15 (1971), commanded by Dave Scott with ...