Apollo 1 was supposed to be another step toward the Moon, but a cabin fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger ...

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in the Apollo 1 fire during a ground test at Cape Kennedy on 27 January 1967, ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT NASA space astronauts' concerns were ignored just seconds before all three men, hoping to reach ...

Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home. Then Collins emerged and ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

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 of ...

Gemini astronauts risked their lives to prove that spacewalking was possible.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (CNN) -- Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Chaffee, who died in a fiery accident before conducting his first space mission, will be admitted to the Astronaut Hall of Fame, ending a ...