On January 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 was killed during a routine pre-launch test. A wire arced in the spacecraft, and that spark turned into a raging fire in the pressurized pure oxygen ...

At the dawn of the space race, Project Mercury was all the rage. After the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the USA's response was to put a human into Earth orbit and return them safely, ideally before the ...

From left to right, the astronauts of Apollo 1: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee. NASA “We’ve got a fire in the cockpit.” It was the afternoon of January 27, 1967, a few ...