But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering flashlights, was a scene of devastation.
Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first flight that NASA ... a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module with all three astronauts trapped inside. Heat caused the air pressure inside the ...
After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed ... orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process ...
an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 was unmanned ...
The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module ... would be known as Apollo 1. NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts ...
Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee sit inside a practice module at Cape Kennedy in Florida. The Apollo 1 mission was supposed to be the first of several crewed flights to prepare for NASA ...
or about $1.1 billion today. Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module.
That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the software for the Apollo Lunar Module ... a '1' would be read.