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During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their ...

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit." Exactly 40 years later, the ...

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...

Crew members of NASA's Apollo 1 mission were honored this week at the Arlington National Cemetery for the tragedy that was the first in American space program history. More than half a century ago, a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, “Fire in the cockpit.” Exactly 40 years later, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Through tragedy there is triumph, and a film telling the story of NASA’s race to the moon and its first loss, "Apollo 1," ...