CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A relic from America's first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo ...
The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...
Fifty years ago, a catastrophic fire consumed a NASA spacecraft during a launch rehearsal test, tragically claiming the lives of three astronauts trapped inside. The haunting final words of one of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The ...
Apollo 1 was to lift off that February. It was the first two-module design, featuring a command and a service module, as well as the first to carry three astronauts into orbit. Hopefully, the team ...
Former Corvallis city councilor Bill York’s biggest contribution to the Apollo program came about after a fire during a training session for Apollo 1 in 1967 killed the mission’s three-person crew.
As part of our 150th birthday, the Orlando Sentinel will reprint articles from our archives as part of our Monday Memory feature. Here’s one from 59 years ago this week about the death of the Apollo 1 ...