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-- commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and ...

The Apollo 1 crew floats around during water egress training. Credit: NASA. The Apollo 1 accident review board determined that a wire over the piping from the urine collection system had arced. The ...

“Fire in the spacecraft!” is a distress call the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes never to hear again. In the aftermath of last January’s Apollo fire, NASA is spending more than ...

“We got a fire in the cockpit,” Senior pilot Ed White called out at a little past 6:31 pm on Jan. 27, 1967. “We got a bad fire,” yelled pilot Roger Chaffee soon after. “We’re burning up!” The ...

Kennedy Space Center’s “Ad Astra Per Aspera” exhibit honors Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died in a launch pad fire in 1967. (NASA Photo / Kim Shiflett) Fifty years ...