Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...

56 years ago today, NASA’s Surveyor 6 lunar lander made history by conducting the first liftoff from the Moon’s surface as it used its engines to briefly liftoff from the Moon’s surface to a height of ...

1967: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfs their command module during testing for the first Apollo/Saturn mission. They are the first U.S.

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 ...

On Jan. 27, 1967 - the United States' space program, NASA, had its first fatalities. The first crewed flight of Apollo 1 was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967, from Cape Kennedy, Fla. (now Cape ...

This image provided a new perspective on our Home: for the first time humans were able to admire a color photograph of their whole planet floating in the dark void of space. The photographic mission ...

It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module came a panicked voice saying: "Fire in the cockpit." Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronauts who were ...

On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that ...