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A new wildfire was reported today at 4:38 a.m. in Los Angeles County, California. Apollo Fire has been burning on private ...
With a new season announcement and a new managing director in David Walker, Apollo's Fire is poised for another round of next ...
Courtesy of Apollo's Fire Members of Apollo's Fire, with music director Jeannette Sorrell at center in the first row, pose in a lobby at Teatro Real (Royal Theatre) in Madrid, Spain, during their ...
The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire that claimed the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Credit: NASA. NASA s Apollo program began with one of the worst disasters the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA's storied Apollo program paid tribute Thursday to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago. On 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 ...
On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1's crew—Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee—was killed when a fire erupted in their capsule during testing. Here, the trio post at their ...
Apollo 1's Block 1 spacecraft had numerous design flaws and safety issues. A pure oxygen atmosphere inside the capsule created a highly flammable environment. A fire during a test killed ...
A fire broke out during an unmanned qualification test of the Apollo Environmental Control System on April 28. The cabin was pressurized to 5psi of 100 percent oxygen, just like the spacecraft ...