Here is the sad ending to the photo of Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee seemingly having a pool ...

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 ...