In mission control, the telemetry and voice communication from Apollo 1 went completely silent. An hour and a half later, firemen and emergency personnel succeeded in removing the bodies ...

When the pad crew finally managed to get the hatch open, they found a charred interior and three bodies. The astronauts ... On Friday, a memorial to the Apollo 1 crew was unveiled at the ...

The three charred bodies were left strapped to their couches ... which the three men had been preparing would be known as Apollo 1.

one of the three Apollo 1 astronauts called out over a radio on ... to assist with the grim work of removing the astronauts’ bodies. “How could we let this happen?” he remembers thinking.

(AP) ─ The three Apollo I Astronauts were killed last night ... heavens for 14 days of orbiting next month. The astronauts' bodies were left in the tiny compartment for more than four hours ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, NASA experienced its first space disaster - the deaths of three astronauts during a training excercise for the Apollo 1 mission. Pictured are the three Apollo 1 prime crewmembers ...

"We covered a little bit of Apollo 1 in that film because Gene Cernan and the Chaffees were next-door neighbors, and Gene looked after Martha and the family for a while afterwards, so it was relevant.

Friday is the 50 th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts. I wrote the following article a few years ago, but my feelings have not changed at all. Space calls to us ...

Crews of the Apollo 1 and Columbia and Challenger space shuttle ... "This place is more than just a final resting place for bodies. This is also a place to think about the future," Bolden said ...