NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. A flash fire swept through the capsule so quickly, the crew didn’t have time to opening ...
As the world reflects on the 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, NASA has worked ... when it was used for the Apollo 11 Mission Control. In a project that has taken over ...
“It’s not that we don’t trust you,” they told NASA brass, “but we’ve decided to go over your head.” When a journalist asked what would make Apollo 1 successful, Grissom unsmilingly ...
Only in hindsight did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program ... thinking in space and in mission control allowed the crew — Jim ...
In the early 1990s, Anne Platoff, then working with Hernandez Engineering Inc. in Houston, Texas put together a NASA ...
Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...
Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...
Mueller, announced that the mission originally scheduled for Grissom, White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1. NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January ...