Apollo 1 was supposed to be another step toward the Moon, but a cabin fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a ground test. The tragedy forced NASA to halt the crewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more ...

Apollo crewed Earth-orbiting mission. First crewed flight with the lunar module. Crew: James McDivitt, David Scott and Russell “Rusty” Schweickart. Apollo lunar mission. The final dress rehearsal ...

The Apollo program famously went from Apollo 1 to Apollo 7, leaving what looks like a mysterious five-mission gap in one of the best-documented programs in history. In reality, the missing numbers are ...

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 ...

On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

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