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. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and...

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 Roger Chaffee (1935–1967), Gus Grissom (1926–1967), and...

Apollo 1 is the official name given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27 1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known...

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 astronauts who were killed in that flash fire were remembered Saturday...

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 astronauts who were killed in that flash fire were remembered Saturday...

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 were killed in that flash fire were remembered Saturday for paving...

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 legendary old-timers.Schirra, who died Thursday at 84, was one of the original Mercury Seven...