Gus Grissom (left), Ed White (middle) and Roger Chaffee (right) during Apollo 1 training. (Image credit: NASA) In 1955, during his time at Purdue, Chaffee met Martha Horn, who he married two years ...

NASA knew the dangers of a pressurized oxygen environment, which has prompted conspiracy theorists to suggest that the space agency intentionally put the Apollo 1 crew in danger. But this was ...

Now it was time for the first step, formally known as AS-204 and only casually as Apollo 1 — not to be a particularly sexy mission, ... Their space suits melted away.

The three were in the capsule for a plug-outs test, wearing space suits sealed within the pressurized module as it ran on its own module. During the second run through the checklist, the fire started.

50 years since deadly Apollo 1 fire 03:51. With the first Apollo launch less than a month away, America’s race to the moon was in high gear. The three-man crew of the first Apollo test flight ...

Apollo Project Space suits Provenance Leonard N. "Lenny" Masiello, Gift, 2015 and materials added in 2019, NASM.2016.0007. Creator Masiello, Leonard N. Summary In 1966, Leonard N. "Lenny" Masiello was ...

The suit, with lunar dust still embedded in the fabric, was revealed alongside Vice President Mike Pence and members of Armstrong's family at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in ...