After the Apollo 1 fire, a tragedy that killed three astronauts in 1967, NASA changed its thinking about space capsule design and safety forever.

Further, an exhibit honoring the Apollo 1 crew was opened at the Kennedy Space Center in 2017, displaying the hatches that were on the spacecraft. The exhibit was done in consultation with the ...

On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured buttermilk, but air ...

NASA on Thursday gave visitors at Kennedy Space Center a glimpse at one of it's most historic -- and tragic -- artifacts: the hatch door of the infamous Apollo 1 spacecraft.

On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, the first American to walk in space, Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee all died when a flash fire erupted inside their space capsule ...

The capsule in which Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed when a flash fire broke out in the pure oxygen atmosphere on January 27, 1967, during a launch pad ...

Terrifying audio has resurfaced from inside the space capsule during the Apollo 1 disaster. Apollo 1 became one most infamous space race disasters in which three astronauts lost their lives in a ...

The capsule, on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kan., will be on display during the hall's official dedication on Oct. 27. In 1967 two of the Apollo 1 astronauts, ...

America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad.

Inside a Kennedy Space Center control room miles from the launch pad, there was confusion. “Fire in the cockpit!” one of the three Apollo 1 astronauts called out over a radio on the evening of ...

The historic Apollo 1 capsule has been moved to a newer, environmentally controlled warehouse at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...