That one Apollo tragedy, along with the program’s many successes and the near tragedy of Apollo 13, should be honored in ...

launch pad fire that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, when they were conducting a dress rehearsal for the launch of their Apollo 1 spacecraft. Shortly ...

NASA’s institutional sorrow runs deep—back far before the Challenger and Columbia disasters, to the Jan. 27, 1967, launch pad fire that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger ...

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee were conducting a routine test when a fire broke out in the command module. The pure oxygen environment inside the spacecraft caused the fire ...

Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of ...