Apollo 1: NASA's Astronauts & the Untold Story Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 The film highlights the journey of Major Donn Eisele, an astronaut who was part of the first ...

NASA life-support engineer Dick Johnston likened the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew to the loss of a father or brother, and called it “the worst tragedy I’ve ever been through.” Astronaut Deke ...

Astronaut David Scott. Apollo 1 was meant to be the first crewed spaceflight of the Apollo program, but a fire during a test killed all three of the astronauts inside the command module.

What: Sonoma International Film Festival screening of “Apollo 1” When: 11 a.m. Thursday, March 20; and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 22. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Mark Craig, the film’s ...

After the [Apollo 1] fire I practically lived at Downey [North ... Our attitude during Apollo was that we as astronauts were expendable. It was all about reaching the goal. If we didn’t get ...

“It’s a terrific tribute of course to the way all progress is made,” Rusty Schweickart said of the film. Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out ...

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 ...

After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the astronaut on the review committee, became the main liaison with contractor North American Aviation.