On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was ...

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, ...

Virgil "Gus" Grissom grew up in Mitchell, Indiana and went on to become one NASA's first astronauts. Indiana astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who grew up in tiny Mitchell, Indiana, and went on to ...

Apollo 1 was to lift off that February. It was the first two-module design, featuring a command and a service module, as well as the first to carry three astronauts into orbit. Hopefully, the team ...

Before Apollo reached the Moon, it faced tragedy on the ground. During a routine test in 1967, a fire inside the Apollo 1 ...

On this date, Jan. 27, 1967, NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. A flash fire swept through the capsule so quickly, the ...

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 ...