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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that spacecraft,” Grissom told her, referring to the Apollo 1 command module then undergoing testing in Florida ...