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A great irony of Apollo 1 is that it kicked off the third and final phase of the manned space program, and its most anticipated, with utter tragedy. The deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger ...

Tragedy struck the heart of the American space programme 59 years ago when a routine pre-launch simulation at Cape Kennedy turned fatal. On January 27, 1967, a flash fire ignited inside the Apollo 1 ...

Purdue workers move one piece of the full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Tuesday (Oct. 9). The capsule, on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere ...

On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the lunar surface and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module ...