Three astronauts died in a fire during an Apollo 1 test. The fire was caused by a faulty spacecraft design and pure oxygen atmosphere. The tragedy led to significant safety improvements in spacecraft ...

Originally named Apollo Saturn-204 (AS-204), the first manned mission of the Apollo lunar landing program was set to launch on February 21, 1967. A month before launch NASA crews gathered on a Cape ...

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 ...

On the 55th anniversary of the incident that killed three astronauts, the lessons learned persist. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

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 ...

Adapted from "Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11" by James Donovan. Copyright 2019, Little, Brown & Company The Apollo ...

Crew members of NASA's Apollo 1 mission were honored this week at the Arlington National Cemetery for the tragedy that was the first in American space program history. More than half a century ago, a ...

Update: Fifty years ago on July 16, 1969, the world watched as Apollo 11 launched towards the skies. The rest, quite literally, became history. Ars has been looking forward to the 50th anniversary of ...

It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more than 20 years later. It was one of the catalysts for the Soviet Union to ...

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...

NASA's Apollo 5 mission launched on Jan. 22, 1968 and marked the first test flight of the Lunar Module that would eventually carry astronauts to the moon. See photos from the historic mission here!