Apollo 1, originally named Apollo Saturn-204 or AS-204, was to be the program's first crewed mission, set to orbit Earth with three astronauts aboard. However, tragedy struck on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire ignited within theApollo 1 command modulewhile the crew was performing a prelaunch ...
Apollo 1 — Disaster on the Pad From left, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee pose in front of their Saturn 1 launch vehicle at Launch Complex 34 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts were in training for AS-204, the first crewed test of the ...
With today's thinking, Honeycutt said, the lunar program would have been canceled after the near disaster of Apollo 13, when an explosion damaged the spacecraft part way to the moon. It was the quick thinking of the NASA flight staff under the direction of Kranz that ensured the crew's s...
摘要: Net sales of Apollo Tyres Ltd regis-1 tered a marginal increase to 37,700 I million in the first half of 2010 (April-September) from 36,810 million during the same period last year. Operating profit, however, came down to 3,880 million from nearly 4,980 million the previous year...
Apollo 1NASA prepares for the Apollo 1 mission, then investigates the cause of the mission's tragic cabin fire. See more▼ Vote! We Have Cleared the Tower (1998) Apollo 7With a documentary film crew watching their every step NASA prepares for the Apollo 7 mission. ...
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (William Shakespeare, Henry V) Thank you for reading. | Tagged Apollo, art, creativity, inspiration, Muses, song, Steven Pressfiel...
Moving Forward From Disaster The fire-damaged capsule of Apollo 1.NASA/Getty Images The two-man capsules of Project Gemini kept returning to space until the final flight, Gemini 12 in November 1966. The most ambitious American space program, Project Apollo, was in the works, with the first ...
A disaster from the start From the moment I got off the bus and wandered along the street to find out how close I was, things did not go well. I thought I’d largely dealt with the issue of condensation inside my camera, and the day hadn’t matched one that usually causes that prob...
missions of Gemini. But the last Mercury flight was May 1963, and the first manned Gemini flight wouldn’t come until March 1965—a long time between “space spectaculars,” as Kennedy called them, to fire the public imagination, and enough time for an entire presidential and ...
NASA Apollo 11 Moon Rock Was Destroyed in a Fire, Records Reveal•Dec. 30, 2024, 12:55 AM ET (Newsweek) 1 of 2 Apollo 11's incredible journey to the MoonOverview of the Apollo 11 spaceflight in which U.S. astronauts became the first people to walk on the Moon. ...