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.
On this date in 1967, a flash fire onboard the Apollo 1 capsule during a test procedure claimed the lives of three astronauts ...
The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were all ...