[Photos of the Apollo 1 Fire: NASA's First Disaster] "I have seen video, I've read quotes, but I had not seen the hatch," said Sheryl Chaffee, who was 8 years old when her father died. "The first ...

Gus' Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee lost their lives when a fire erupted in the cockpit during a launch rehearsal for the NASA Apollo 1 space mission. The incident is one of the ...

“It’s not that we don’t trust you,” they told NASA brass, “but we’ve decided to go over your head.” When a journalist asked what would make Apollo 1 successful, Grissom unsmilingly ...

NASA’s Apollo Program was built on ambition, but it nearly collapsed after a deadly disaster. From the Apollo 1 tragedy to the moon landing and Apollo 13’s near-failure, this is the real story ...

Gus' Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee lost their lives when a fire erupted in the cockpit during a launch rehearsal for the NASA Apollo 1 space mission. The incident is one of the ...

A fire erupted in the cockpit of Apollo 1 on January 27, 1967, causing the horrific deaths of NASA astronauts Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee. The blaze broke out at ...

Apollo 7 marked the resumption of NASA's lunar spaceflight program 21 months after the fire that killed all three members of the Apollo 1 crew - Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee - during a ...