In the 45 years since that day, spacecraft builders have learned a lot about constructing safer space vehicles. [Photos: The Apollo 1 Fire] "From a human safety perspective, I think because of the ...

[Infographic: How the Apollo 1 Fire Happened] Further, the hatch door — intended to keep the astronauts and the atmosphere securely inside the spacecraft — turned out to be too tough to open ...

Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. The scorched Apollo 1 capsule remains locked away in storage. But NASA is offering visitors at Kennedy Space Center a look at ...

The historic Apollo 1 capsule has been moved to a newer, environmentally controlled warehouse at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could never reach the Moon. It was never meant to. The barebones ‘Block 1’ spacecraft, intended only for Earth-orbital tests, had none of the navigational ...

An electrical spark apparently turned the Apollo 1 capsule into an instant inferno, killing the three space age heroes whose names were household words and dealing the nation's moon exploration ...

Terrifying audio has resurfaced from inside the space capsule during the Apollo 1 disaster. Apollo 1 became one most infamous space race disasters in which three astronauts lost their lives in a ...

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 ...

with a mockup of the Apollo spacecraft at right ... White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1. NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January 28th, which ...

but by choosing to remain strapped in his couch attempting to transmit emergency messages to the blockhouse while fire raged mercilessly through the Apollo 1 spacecraft," Green told the audience.