Thick smoke filled the cabin as flames erupted during a routine test, trapping three astronauts in a pure oxygen chamber on January 27, 1967. The Apollo 1 fire claimed Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger ...
On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...