A flash fire took the lives of three NASA astronauts in less than 30 seconds on January 27, 1967. Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee all died during a preflight test of the Apollo ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex during a preflight test. The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space ...

On Jan. 27, 1967 - the United States' space program, NASA, had its first mission-related fatalities. The first crewed flight of Apollo 1 was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967, from Cape Kennedy, Fla. ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on January 28, 1967.) CAPE KENNEDY, Jan. 27 – The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed tonight when a flash fire swept ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Forty-nine years ago today, a Michigan hero lost his life. It was Jan. 27, 1967 when astronaut Roger B. Chaffee, of Grand Rapids, was killed along with Virgil "Gus" Grissom and ...

This week in 1967 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration family suffered its first fatalities as the crew of Apollo 1 was killed in a training exercise at the Kennedy Space Center. On Jan.

On Jan. 27, 1967 - the United States' space program, NASA, had its first fatalities. The first crewed flight of Apollo 1 was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967, from Cape Kennedy, Fla. (now Cape ...

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 ...