"NASA was okay with it now, but the families [of the fallen astronauts] were the most important people to have in the film." Related: Apollo 1: The fatal fire It took a couple of years, but Craig ...

NASA’s Apollo Program began with bold ambition but was nearly derailed by tragedy. From the fatal Apollo 1 fire to the triumph of Apollo 8, this is the gripping story of how America reached for ...

The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

So did Gus Grissom and his Apollo 1 crew. The problem was, no one at NASA or North American was controlling the process to keep it in line with established fire-prevention rules, which called for ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia ... White II, and Roger B. Chaffee. NASA holds a Day of Remembrance every year in late January or early February ...

Only in hindsight did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the ...

Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Six years later, when the Apollo 1 fire took the lives of three astronauts and put the moon program’s future in doubt, NASA once again turned to Low. In April 1967, Webb tapped him to be the ...

“Apollo 1” tells the tragic story of the first crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo space program ... Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White — who were killed when a fire swept through their spacecraft ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

"We covered a little bit of Apollo 1 in that film because ... length documentary about the three NASA astronauts who were killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire tore through their spacecraft during ...