Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...

Apollo 9 astronaut ... of the three Apollo 1 astronauts — Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White — who were killed when a fire swept through their spacecraft during a ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

Space exploration has been marked by tragic disasters, such as the Apollo 1 fire ... Chaffee were on board the spacecraft when an electrical spark caused a fire in the pure oxygen environment.

For centuries, the phenomenon known as St. Elmo’s Fire, a form of luminous plasma created by a coronal ... In 2011, a lightning strike hit a Tanzanian school, killing several children. The tragedy led ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...