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11, 1968, NASA had worked hard at improving crew safety and heeded the concerns of astronauts that arose after a command module fire killed the Apollo 1 crew 20 months earlier during a routine launch pad test. But Apollo 7 proved to be an engineering success, despite crew illness and ...
Prior to Apollo 7, the missions were designed to test the Saturn 1B and Saturn V launch vehicles, the command and service module (CSM), and the lunar module (LM). After three astronauts were killed in a flash fire inside the command module (CM) during ground tests in Jan. 1967, the...
Apollo 8, launched in 1968, was the first NASA mission to both leave low Earth orbit and reach the moon. Borman, along with astronauts James Lovell, and William Anders, orbited the moon 10 times before returning to Earth. They were the first humans ever to see the far side of the moon...
"NASA sent Wally in when things needed to be fixed," McGlynn told me over the phone. As just one example: Schirra was called on to pilot that Apollo 7 mission a year after the fire that killed all three astronauts on Apollo 1. After Schirra died in 2007, his widow eventually conta...
On January 27, 1967, Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a test for the first Apollo mission. This mission was originally called Apollo Saturn-204 (AS-204) but was redesignated Apollo 1 as a tribute. ...
*Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee were killed on Jan. 27, 1967, in a test for the first Apollo mission. This mission was originally called Apollo 204 but was redesignated Apollo 1 as a tribute to the astronauts. Numbering of the Apollo missions began with the four...
Despite the initial enthusiasm, Project Apollo suffered a large delay when the Apollo 1 mission ended in a devastating ground fire that killed the three astronauts on board. Operations were slowly resumed after thorough investigations, and NASA began testing the modules. Apollo 7 checked the command...
NASA astronaut William Anders was killed Friday while operating a plane that crashed near the San Juan Islands in Washington state. Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell accompanied Anders during the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon.
The road to the moon would be difficult, hugely expensive and in a few cases, marred by tragedy. Three astronauts — Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White — were killed Jan. 27, 1967, when a flash fire erupted and swept through their problem-plagued Apollo 1 command modul...