Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The ...

NASA’s Apollo Program was built on ambition, but it nearly collapsed after a deadly disaster. From the Apollo 1 tragedy to the moon landing and Apollo 13’s near-failure, this is the real story behind ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...