Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...

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.

This week in 1967 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration family suffered its first fatalities as the crew of Apollo 1 was killed in a training exercise at the Kennedy Space Center. On Jan.

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...

This image provided a new perspective on our Home: for the first time humans were able to admire a color photograph of their whole planet floating in the dark void of space. The photographic mission ...

This print is of NASA Image #LO3-M162. This mission was to map the moon for future Apollo landing sites on the Kepler Crater and vicinity. Image The central image area, composition, or focal point; ...

On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that ...