On this date in 1967, a flash fire onboard the Apollo 1 capsule during a test procedure claimed the lives of three astronauts.
Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...
NASA observed its annual Day of Rembrance today honoring those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.
Image credits: NASA Earth Observatory The base was built by cutting a network of tunnels within the near-surface layer of the ice sheet and was abandoned in 1967. Since then, snow and ice ...
Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...