During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...

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 ...

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 ...