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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire that claimed the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Credit: NASA. NASA s Apollo program began with one of the worst disasters the ...

On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that ...

Purdue workers move one piece of the full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Tuesday (Oct. 9). The capsule, on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids native played a big role in the efforts to get to the moon. Two and half years before the Apollo 11 mission, Grand Rapids native Roger Chaffee, along with ...

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 ...

On Jan. 27, 1967 - the United States' space program, NASA, had its first mission-related fatalities. The first crewed flight of Apollo 1 was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967, from Cape Kennedy, Fla. ...

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 ...

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 ...