Apollo 1 was originally designated AS-204 but following the fire, ... Left to right in their pressurized space suits are astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Roger B. Chaffee and Edward H. White II.

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, ...

When three NASA astronauts were killed in the Apollo 1 fire on Jan. 27, 1967, ... The flames were apparently sucked into the astronauts’ space suits, ...

The first public reference to “Apollo 1” subsequently appeared in a newspaper on 4 August 1966; and w hen the CM (Command Module) – CM-012 – for the mission arrived at the Kennedy Space ...

The decision proved to be a good one, and the space suits served all 12 Americans who have walked on the Moon. In fact, the company is still responsible for producing NASA’s space suits to this day.

Project Gemini Suit. March 1965: Version 1. Designed by NASA based on the X-15 high-altitude pressure suit, the Gemini spacesuit was worn by astronauts for launch, in-flight activities and landing.

What: Sonoma International Film Festival screening of “Apollo 1” When: 11 a.m. Thursday, March 20; and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 22.Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Mark Craig, the film’s ...

A little less than two years later, in October 1968, Cunningham, Wally Schirra, and Donn Eisele became the first Apollo crew to successfully venture into space. Over the next three years, Apollo ...