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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...