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 ...

Astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn E. Eisele and Walter Cunningham were the backup team for Apollo 1 and presumably will move into the void left by Grissom, White and Chaffee. The program ...

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

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, [...] ...

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 ...

NASA's Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies remind Andrew Allen of the science fiction movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," where Americans later recall what they were doing and what they ...

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...