We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar ...

Because of the pressure of the fire, and the fact that the spacecraft's hatch opened inward, there was no hope of escape. Investigation of the Apollo 1 Accident Extensive reviews followed the ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed ...

This design was the reason the crew could not escape during the Apollo 1 fire. The Apollo 7 spacecraft included a Command and Service Module 101 (CSM-101), the first Block II CSM to be flown with ...