The Apollo program began with soaring ambitions — a lunar mission by the end of the 1960s. Then, tragedy struck. On January 27, 1967 the first crewed flight, Apollo 1, ended in a devastating fire that ...

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 ...

On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that ...

More than half a century ago, the first astronauts set to fly in the Apollo era died tragically in a fire while performing a command module test ahead of the planned Saturn 1B rocket launch. Theirs is ...

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 ...