It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more than 20 years later. It was one of the catalysts for the Soviet Union to ...

Crew members of NASA’s Apollo 1 mission were honored this week at the Arlington National Cemetery for the tragedy that was the first in American space program history. More than half a century ago, a ...

Watch the trailer for Secret Space UFOs: Apollo 1 - 11, an upcoming documentary from filmmaker Darcy Weir. The UFO phenomenon has been recorded far beyond the boundaries of Earth with hundreds of ...

Three astronauts died in a fire during an Apollo 1 test. The fire was caused by a faulty spacecraft design and pure oxygen atmosphere. The tragedy led to significant safety improvements in spacecraft ...

To this day, Gene Kranz may be the most famous and most consequential figure in the history of Mission Control at NASA. Kranz was the longtime flight director for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo ...

An image taken from Spirit’s PanCam looking west depicts the nearby hills named after the astronauts of the Apollo 1. The crew of Apollo 1 perished in flash fire during a launch pad test of their ...

Apollo 7, crewed by Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, represented the first manned American spaceflight 21 months after the Apollo 1 fatal accident. Launching on October 11, 1968 ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad. It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film ...