The Apollo Program began not with glory—but with fire. This is the story of how NASA’s most ambitious project nearly ended ...

but from inhaling carbon monoxide and other toxic gases generated by the fire. To test this scenario, investigators set up a duplicate of the Apollo 1 cabin inside a boilerplate command module ...

A subsequent investigation revealed that the fire ... of the cabin. Schweickart and his Apollo 9 crewmates — James McDivitt and David Scott — were very familiar with the Apollo 1 astronauts.

high-pressure atmosphere and a large number of flammable items in the cabin. Only in hindsight did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space ...

From the fatal Apollo 1 fire to the triumph of Apollo 8, this is the gripping story of how America reached for the Moon—and refused to give up. Seth Rogen’s Trump joke cut from awards show ...