The previous day at NASA was dedicated to the people who lost their lives while helping humanity reach frontiers that had once seemed to belong only to myth and dreams. The accompanying collection commemorates them.
Apollo 1
The crew of the first Apollo mission, preparing for the journey toward the Moon, died on January 27, 1967 during a ground test when a fire swept through the spacecraft cabin. The article attributes the rapid fire to flammable materials inside the spacecraft together with the pure-oxygen environment. The disaster led NASA to make major changes to the design of the Apollo command module.
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| Virgil Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chaffee :Apollo-1 |