"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 ...

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold- out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of “Apollo 1” on Saturday, March 22.

The launch was not just the achievement of a single mission but confirmation that NASA had recovered from the searing setback of the Apollo 1 fire that had killed three astronauts 21 months earlier.

"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 ...