It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo ... 1," Craig's new feature-length documentary about the three NASA astronauts who were killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire tore through ...

The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire that claimed the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Credit: NASA. NASA s Apollo program began with one of the worst disasters the ...

Other sensors detected a brief power surge. Then came the first call from inside Apollo 1. It was Chaffee’s voice. And it was just one word: “Fire!” Now the calls came thick and fast.

It was something horrifying and unbelievable. Flames rampaging inside Apollo 1 — a whirlwind of fire burning everything it touched. The medical readings showed Ed White's pulse rate jumped off ...

Wearing bulky spacesuits, the astronauts climbed aboard at 1 ... the Apollo capsule he was helping test when an emergency phone call came in. Astronaut Al Worden told him there had been a fire ...

They were selected for the first manned mission of the Apollo moon program, meant to orbit the Earth in a shakedown flight. They died in a fire on the ... promised Apollo 1, but shoulder surgery ...

It has been 50 years since the Apollo 1 fire killed Roger Chaffee at Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 in Florida. Chaffee, along with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Ed White II ...

“It’s very fitting. We all feel like it’s about time.” The Apollo 1 fire — NASA’s first space tragedy — has long been overshadowed by the 1986 Challenger and 2003 Columbia shuttle ...

The Apollo 1 fire was not the last of NASA's deadly space accidents. Two fatal space shuttle accidents, one in 1986 and the other in 2003, killed 14 astronauts in all, forcing NASA each time to re ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA’s storied Apollo program paid tribute Thursday to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago. On the eve ...