Friday marks 50 years since the Apollo 1 tragedy that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. The astronauts died when the module caught on fire on the launch pad during a training exercise. More: http://via.whnt.com/mlYAu | WHNT News 19

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/ez1ouH The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of the U.S. space program. Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first flight that NASA would conduct to prepare for a crewed landing on the moon. Less than a month before their planned launch date, a fire erupted inside the apollo command module w