‘Got a fire in the cockpit!’: The Apollo 1 tragedy that killed three astronauts
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Astronauts for the first Apollo Mission (L-R) Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee. The men died in a fire in the command module during a rehearsal on Jan. 27, 1967. (NASA.gov)
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Three astronauts were sealed inside a spacecraft preparing for a simulated liftoff to practice what would happen for real less than a month later.
But Air Force Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Air Force Col. Edward White II and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee never got that chance.