Jan. 27, 1967: 3 Astronauts Die in Launchpad Fire

1967: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfs their command module during testing for the first Apollo-Saturn mission. They are the first U.S. astronauts to die in a spacecraft. The command module, built by North American Aviation, was the prototype for those that would [...]