Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could never reach the Moon. It was never meant to. The barebones ‘Block 1’ spacecraft, intended only for Earth-orbital tests, had none of the navigational ...

Mueller, announced that the mission originally scheduled for Grissom, White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1. NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January ...

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, [...] ...