The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...

On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was ...

On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.

Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The ...

A great irony of Apollo 1 is that it kicked off the third and final phase of the manned space program, and its most anticipated, with utter tragedy. The deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger ...

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