On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first ...

After groundbreaking success with the Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA was rocked by the Apollo 1 disaster, in which three crew members were killed in an accidental fire. But NASA recovered ...

Though NASA expected their complicated ... of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted inside the sealed cockpit.

After the unfortunate incident of the Apollo 1 fire, the Apollo 7 crew lacked ... fly in all three programs: Mercury, Gemini, ...