An electrical spark which ignited the pure oxygen of the pressurized cabin was the apparent cause of the fiery explosion aboard Apollo 1. Dense smoke poured from the hatch while ground crewmen ...

WASHINGTON — It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle explosion, one of NASA's most ... as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia, during its annual Day ...

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 ...

The proceedings commemorated the lives lost in NASA's three space tragedies — the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, the space shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986 and the shuttle Columbia ...

NASA's Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies remind ... when he learned about the January 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion — he had just finished flying an F/A-18 Hornet bombing ...