Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA ...

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

A fatal fire during a routine test killed three Nasa astronauts inside the Apollo 1 capsule, 59 years ago. This tragedy ...

Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...

The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...

NASA's first tragedy is recalled annually at Launch Complex 34. This year is different, as the Artemis II mission sits on the ...

The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...

When you light a candle on Earth, the heat rises because hot air is less dense than cold air. However if you lit that candle ...