Three astronauts died in a fire during an Apollo 1 test. The fire was caused by a faulty spacecraft design and pure oxygen atmosphere. The tragedy led to significant safety improvements in spacecraft ...

Originally named Apollo Saturn-204 (AS-204), the first manned mission of the Apollo lunar landing program was set to launch on February 21, 1967. A month before launch NASA crews gathered on a Cape ...

Update: Fifty years ago on July 16, 1969, the world watched as Apollo 11 launched towards the skies. The rest, quite literally, became history. Ars has been looking forward to the 50th anniversary of ...

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 ...

Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home. Then Collins emerged and ...

Adapted from "Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11" by James Donovan. Copyright 2019, Little, Brown & Company The Apollo ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...