Dark shadows lengthened amid a fading orange sunset at long-abandoned Launch Complex 34, where the rust-streaked launch pedestal looms like a memorial to one of NASA's most haunting tragedies. On ...

50 years since deadly Apollo 1 fire 03:51. With the first Apollo launch less than a month away, America’s race to the moon was in high gear. The three-man crew of the first Apollo test flight ...

Launch Complex 34 and the rest of America were very different on Jan. 27, 1967. The U.S. military was wrapping up Operation Cedar Falls, the biggest American offensive to that point in the Vietnam ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside their capsule during a countdown rehearsal, with the astronauts atop the rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 34. All three were killed. (NASA ...

A new NASA exhibit recognizes the tragic loss and enduring legacy of the crew of Apollo 1. On the 50th anniversary of a fatal launch pad fire that killed three pioneering astronauts, "Ad Astra Per ...

Pictured are the three Apollo 1 prime crewmembers intended for the first manned Apollo space ... The Command Module was taken to the White Room at Launch Complex 34. ... Saturn 1 Launch Vehicle.

With Apollo 1 reserved for Grissom, White, and Chaffee’s mission, NASA took the previous three Apollo flights – 201, 202, and 203 – and eliminated 203 (as it didn’t carry an Apollo ...

A new NASA exhibit recognizes the tragic loss and enduring legacy of the crew of Apollo 1. On the 50th anniversary of a fatal launch pad fire that killed three pioneering astronauts, "Ad Astra Per ...

A new NASA exhibit recognizes the tragic loss and enduring legacy of the crew of Apollo 1. On the 50th anniversary of a fatal launch pad fire that killed three pioneering astronauts, "Ad Astra Per ...

A new NASA exhibit recognizes the tragic loss and enduring legacy of the crew of Apollo 1. On the 50th anniversary of a fatal launch pad fire that killed three pioneering astronauts, "Ad Astra Per ...