A badge board and badges from launch support staff at Launch Complex 34 is observed inside the Apollo 1 tribute at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center as it opened on Jan. 27 ...

When a car showed up in Apollo White or Saturn Yellow with GSX stripes and that unmistakable rumble, people paid attention. Buick GSX Through The Years The GSX had a short run, but it packed a punch.

The Apollo 17 mission patch, which was flown on the uncrewed Artemis 1 capsule at the request of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, is a souvenir from the 1972 flight that saw Gene ...

It has been 50 years since the Apollo 1 fire killed Roger Chaffee at Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 in Florida. Chaffee, along with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Ed White II, ...

Family members, astronauts and NASA officials gathered for the space agency’s annual Day of Remembrance honoring the fallen crews of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger — which exploded Jan ...

Apollo 1 on Jan. 27, 1967 was the first human tragedy to strike America's space program, but it wasn't the last. On Tuesday, NASA field centers and facilities including Marshall in Huntsville ...

But in less than 30 months following the Apollo 1 accident, NASA flew five Apollo missions. During the final one of those five, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Moon.

Through tragedy the Apollo 1 crew sparked change and were instrumental in the future success of Apollo 11’s 1969 lunar landing. “It’s a terrific tribute of course to the way all progress is ...

Wagering favorite Badge of Glory won the Minnesota Oaks, while Lil' Apollo captured the Minnesota Derby in a pair of $75,000 races on Saturday at Canterbury Park. Badge of Glory, ridden by Scott ...

Friday is the 50 th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts. I wrote the following article a few years ago, but my feelings have not changed at all. Space calls to us, and we ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts were killed when a fire broke out in their Apollo 1 cockpit during a test on the launchpad. The capsule will be put on public view for the first time Friday.

Then each mission's badge swoops into the frame, beginning with the first Apollo mission, which never got off the ground: that 1967 mission resulted in a fire that killed the astronauts aboard it.