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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...