“Launch Complex 34, Friday 27 January ... yet their sacrifice helped facilitate the success of the Apollo program’s push to land men on the Moon. Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could ...

Astronaut Memorial Ceremony took place Sunday to honor the 17 NASA crew members lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies.

First Stage – Apollo 7 launched from Launch Complex 34 at 11:02:45 am EDT on Friday, October 11, 1968, nearly 22 months since ...

On this date in 1967, a flash fire onboard the Apollo 1 capsule during a test procedure claimed the lives of three astronauts.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex during a preflight ... White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1.

Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...