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 ...

The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...

Forty years ago this afternoon, a routine test of the Block 1 Apollo spacecraft resulted in a catastrophic LOCV accident which claimed the lives of three American astronauts. Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom ...

An image taken from Spirit’s PanCam looking west depicts the nearby hills named after the astronauts of the Apollo 1. The crew of Apollo 1 perished in flash fire during a launch pad test of their ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of its moon program's fatal Apollo launchpad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three ...

The exhibit, called Ad Astra Per Astera: A Rough Road Leads to the Stars, opened yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In addition to displaying personal effects of the three astronauts, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is opening an exhibit honoring the astronauts in the Apollo 1 fire - 50 years to the day they died. The hatch from the burning spacecraft is the main draw. It had been ...

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 ...