HAMPTON, Va. – NASA moved the Apollo 1 capsule and related materials approximately 90 feet to a newer, environmentally-controlled warehouse at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., on ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

The exhibit, called Ad Astra Per Astera: A Rough Road Leads to the Stars, opened yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In addition to displaying personal effects of the three astronauts, ...

During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...

This collection consists of a cubic feet of copies of material gathered by Allan Needell on the Apollo 1 fire. Material was gathered from magazines, reports, memorandums, letters, and the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of its moon program's fatal Apollo launch pad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three ...

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 ...