The year is 1949.The United States is four years past victory in World War II.Thanks to the heroic efforts of 16 million ...

About 63 hours after its launch, Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966. The 2,200-pound (998 kilograms) craft touched ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, pioneering Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee died here in their spacesuits while sealed inside their ... accident or a fire," he said.

Devastating audio from the disastrous first crewed mission of the Apollo program has been released. On 21 February, 1967, the first low Earth orbital test using the Apollo 1 ... fire occurred on 27 ...

Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could ... Then came the first call from inside Apollo 1. It was Chaffee’s voice. And it was just one word: “Fire!” Now the calls came thick and fast.

Among the three pilots chosen to man the Apollo 1 mission two were the ... eight horrifying words were heard from inside the command module: “We’ve got a fire in the crew deck”.

Terrifying audio has resurfaced from inside the space capsule during the Apollo 1 ... fire broke out inside the cabin. The astronauts, in vain, attempted to open the inner hatch, while the pad ...

And the cumbersome procedures to release the inward-opening hatch were impossible to complete once the fire caused the air pressure to rise inside ... think that the Apollo 1 crew would be good ...