On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history ...

On this date, Jan. 27, 1967, NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. A flash fire swept through the capsule so quickly ...

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Of course, I would be remiss if I failed to mention that Jan. 27 is the 58th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts during a routine practice on the launchpad. This time of ...

The Apollo 1 fire erupted on Jan. 27, 1967, while team members were testing the mission's command module on the ground. The three Apollo 1 astronauts — Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom ...

The ceremony paid homage to Columbia’s seven along with the seven who died on Space Shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, the three Apollo 1 astronauts that died in a fire on the launch pad ...

The Space Mirror Memorial is engraved with the names of the crews of three space missions along with astronaut ... ahead of the Apollo 1 mission launch when there was a cabin fire that killed ...

Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during a preflight test for Apollo 204 on Jan. 27, 1967 when a fire swept through ... atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003.

The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia ... the Apollo I fire, the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and the ...