Apollo I Crew
Shortly before 1 o'clock on the afternoon of January 27, 1967, three men rode a noisy metal elevator to the top of a steel tower at Launch Complex 34-A at Cape Canaveral, Florida....
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Apollo 1 Crew
Died January 27, 1967 (Cape Canaveral, Florida)
American astronauts
On January 27, 1967, the first step toward putting an American on the Moon ended in tragedy. That day, astronauts Roge...
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It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test.But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit."Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronaut...
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It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test.But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit."Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronaut...
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It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit."Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronauts who wer...
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More than two dozen former astronauts assembled Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center to honor the Astronaut Hall of Fame's newest inductees also remembered Wally Schirra, one of the space program's...
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Although he typically shuns attention, former astronaut Neil Armstrong on Saturday addressed a crowd at the dedication of a new engineering building named for him at Purdue University, his alma mat...
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In an emotional ceremony just a few miles from where Columbia should have landed five years ago Friday, NASA officials, astronauts, schoolchildren and family members of the lost shuttle crew gather...
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How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endanger...
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How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endanger...
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As a female voice coos, "Welcome to space," six passengers in skintight spacesuits unbuckle their seat belts and somersault in zero gravity, occasionally peeking back at Earth through the private s...
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Apollo I Crew
Apollo 1 Crew
Fallen Apollo 1 astronauts remembered 40 years on for paving way for NASA successes
