CLEVELAND, Ohio – In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of both plague and healing. It only stands to reason, then, that the baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire has emerged as one of the first groups of ...

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...

With the first Apollo launch less than a month away, America’s race to the moon was in high gear. The three-man crew of the first Apollo test flight-- commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and ...

A half-century ago during a routine test of Apollo 1 on Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire on the launch pad killed Ed White, Roger Chaffee and Gus Grissom. The accident was a huge blow to NASA, then in a ...

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

NASA's first space disaster occurred on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire broke out inside the cockpit of the Apollo 1 spacecraft while it was still on the launch pad undergoing a supposedly routine test.

Update: Fifty years ago on July 16, 1969, the world watched as Apollo 11 launched towards the skies. The rest, quite literally, became history. Ars has been looking forward to the 50th anniversary of ...